ELIJAH

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• 1 Kings 9:11

  (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

• 1 Kings 9:12

  Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.

• 1 Kings 9:13

  He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.

• 1 Kings 9:14

  Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

• 1 Kings 9:15

  This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

• 1 Kings 9:16

  Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

• 1 Kings 9:17

  Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,

• 1 Kings 9:18

  Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,

• 1 Kings 17:1

  Elijah 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.”

• 1 Kings 17:2

  Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,

• 1 Kings 17:3

  “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

• 1 Kings 17:4

  You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

• 1 Kings 17:5

  So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.

• 1 Kings 17:6

  The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

• 1 Kings 17:7

  After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

• 1 Kings 17:8

  Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,

• 1 Kings 17:9

  “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

• 1 Kings 17:10

  So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

• 1 Kings 17:11

  As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

• 1 Kings 17:13

  Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”

• 1 Kings 17:15

  She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

• 1 Kings 17:16

  The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil did not fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.

• 1 Kings 17:17

  After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

• 1 Kings 17:18

  She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

• 1 Kings 17:19

  He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

• 1 Kings 17:20

  He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”

• 1 Kings 17:21

  He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”

• 1 Kings 17:22

  Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

• 1 Kings 17:23

  Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”

• 1 Kings 17:24

  The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”

• 1 Kings 18:1

  After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”

• 1 Kings 18:2

  Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

• 1 Kings 18:3

  Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

• 1 Kings 18:4

  for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

• 1 Kings 18:5

  Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”

• 1 Kings 18:6

  So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

• 1 Kings 18:7

  As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”

• 1 Kings 18:8

  He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”

• 1 Kings 18:9

  He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

• 1 Kings 18:10

  As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

• 1 Kings 18:11

  Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’

• 1 Kings 18:12

  It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

• 1 Kings 18:13

  Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

• 1 Kings 18:14

  Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”

• 1 Kings 18:15

  Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”

• 1 Kings 18:16

  So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

• 1 Kings 18:17

  When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

• 1 Kings 18:18

  He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

• 1 Kings 18:19

  Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

• 1 Kings 18:20

  So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.

• 1 Kings 18:24

  You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “What you say is good.”

• 1 Kings 18:25

  Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

• 1 Kings 18:26

  They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

• 1 Kings 18:27

  At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

• 1 Kings 18:28

  They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

• 1 Kings 18:29

  When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.

• 1 Kings 18:36

  At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

• 1 Kings 18:37

  Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”

• 1 Kings 18:38

  Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

• 1 Kings 18:40

  Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

• 1 Kings 18:41

  Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

• 1 Kings 18:42

  So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.

• 1 Kings 18:43

  He said to his servant, “Go up now, and look toward the sea.” He went up, and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.

• 1 Kings 18:44

  On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”

• 1 Kings 18:45

  In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 19:1

  Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

• 1 Kings 19:2

  Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

• 1 Kings 19:3

  When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

• 1 Kings 19:4

  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

• 1 Kings 19:5

  He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”

• 1 Kings 19:6

  He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.

• 1 Kings 19:7

  Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

• 1 Kings 19:8

  He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

• 1 Kings 19:9

  He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

• 1 Kings 19:10

  He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

• 1 Kings 19:11

  He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.” Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

• 1 Kings 19:12

  After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

• 1 Kings 19:13

  When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

• 1 Kings 19:14

  He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

• 1 Kings 19:15

  Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

• 1 Kings 19:16

  Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.

• 1 Kings 19:17

  He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

• 1 Kings 19:18

  Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

• 1 Kings 19:19

  So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.

• 1 Kings 19:20

  Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”

• 1 Kings 19:21

  He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

• 1 Kings 21:17

  Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

• 1 Kings 21:18

  “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.

• 1 Kings 21:19

  You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”

• 1 Kings 21:20

  Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

• 1 Kings 21:21

  Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

• 1 Kings 21:22

  I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”

• 1 Kings 21:23

  Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 21:24

  The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field.”

• 1 Kings 21:25

  But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

• 1 Kings 21:26

  He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

• 1 Kings 21:27

  When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

• 1 Kings 21:28

  Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

• 1 Kings 21:29

  “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

• 2 Kings 1:2

  Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

• 2 Kings 1:3

  But Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?

• 2 Kings 1:4

  Now therefore Yahweh says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.”’” Then Elijah departed.

• 2 Kings 1:5

  The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”

• 2 Kings 1:6

  They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “Yahweh says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”’”

• 2 Kings 1:7

  He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?”

• 2 Kings 1:8

  They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”

• 2 Kings 1:9

  Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”

• 2 Kings 1:10

  Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

• 2 Kings 1:11

  Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’”

• 2 Kings 1:12

  Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

• 2 Kings 1:13

  Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

• 2 Kings 1:14

  Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”

• 2 Kings 1:15

  Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” Then he arose, and went down with him to the king.

• 2 Kings 1:16

  He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”

• 2 Kings 1:17

  So he died according to Yahweh’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.

• 2 Kings 2:11

  As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

• 2 Kings 9:25

  Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

• 2 Kings 9:26

  ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

• 2 Kings 9:27

  But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

• 2 Kings 9:28

  His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city.

• 2 Kings 9:29

  In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.

• 2 Kings 9:30

  When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

• 2 Kings 9:31

  As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”

• 2 Kings 9:32

  He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

• 2 Kings 9:33

  He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.

• 2 Kings 9:34

  When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

• 2 Kings 9:35

  They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

• 2 Kings 9:36

  Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,

• 2 Kings 9:37

  and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”

• 1 Chronicles 8:27

  Jaareshiah, Elijah, Zichri, and the sons of Jeroham.

• 2 Chronicles 21:12

  A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

• 2 Chronicles 21:13

  but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,

• 2 Chronicles 21:14

  behold, Yahweh will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your posessions;

• 2 Chronicles 21:15

  and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”

• Ezra 10:21

  Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

• Matthew 11:14

  If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

• Matthew 16:14

  They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”

• Matthew 17:3

  Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.

• Matthew 17:4

  Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

• Matthew 17:10

  His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

• Matthew 17:11

  Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,

• Matthew 17:12

  but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”

• Mark 9:4

  Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.

• Mark 9:12

  He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

• Mark 9:13

  But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”

• Luke 1:17

  He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

• Luke 9:30

  Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,

• Luke 9:54

  When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

• John 1:21

  They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

• John 1:22

  They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

• John 1:23

  He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

• John 1:24

  The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

• John 1:25

  They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

• Romans 11:2

  God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

• James 5:17

  Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

• James 5:18

  He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.