1. Now Elijah the Tishbite, one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab: “As Adonai God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew or rain these years, except at my word.”
2. Then the word of Adonai came to him saying:
3. “Leave this place, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan.