1 Kings 8:36

8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ¹  you will then teach them the right way to live ²  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ³ 

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory

17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), ⁴  there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” ⁵ 

1 Kings 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ⁶  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

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¹ tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

² tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

³ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

⁴ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

⁵ tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”

⁶ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”