1. Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
2. Then the Lord’s word came to him, saying,
3. “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.