Zechariah 10:1

God's people are told to ask the Lord, not idols, for rain, since He alone gives the showers. True provision comes from seeking the Lord rather than false gods.

Cross-references · 29

• Jas 5:16–18Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
• Matt 7:7–8“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
• Isa 44:3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
• Deut 28:23Your sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
• John 16:23“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
• Ps 65:9You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
• Jas 5:7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
• Ezek 36:37Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
• Isa 30:23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
• Hos 10:12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
• Mic 5:7The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
• Amos 4:7“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.
• Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
• Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
• Ps 104:13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
• Job 37:1–6“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
• Deut 11:13–14It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Prov 16:15In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
• Jer 51:16When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
• 1 Kgs 17:1Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
• Ezek 34:26I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
• Jer 10:13when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
• 1 Cor 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• 1 Kgs 18:41–45Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
• Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
• Job 29:23They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
• Ps 72:6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
• Joel 2:23–24“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
• Job 36:27–31For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

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