1. Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”
2. The word of the Lord came to Elijah:
3. Leave here, go east and hide in the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan.
4. You shall drink of the wadi, and I have commanded ravens to feed you there.
5. So he left and did as the Lord had commanded. He left and remained by the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan.