1 Raja-raja 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), ¹  there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” ² 

Mazmur 74:15

74:15 You broke open the spring and the stream; ³ 

you dried up perpetually flowing rivers. ⁴ 

Yesaya 41:15

41:15 “Look, I am making you like ⁵  a sharp threshing sledge,

new and double-edged. ⁶ 

You will thresh the mountains and crush them;

you will make the hills like straw. ⁷ 

[17:1]  ¹ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

[17:1]  ² tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”

[74:15]  ³ sn You broke open the spring and the stream. Perhaps this alludes to the way in which God provided water for the Israelites as they traveled in the wilderness following the exodus (see Ps 78:15-16, 20; 105:41).

[74:15]  ⁴ sn Perpetually flowing rivers are rivers that contain water year round, unlike the seasonal streams that flow only during the rainy season. Perhaps the psalmist here alludes to the drying up of the Jordan River when the Israelites entered the land of Canaan under Joshua (see Josh 3-4).

[41:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “into” (so NIV); ASV “have made thee to be.”

[41:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “owner of two-mouths,” i.e., double-edged.

[41:15]  ⁷ sn The mountains and hills symbolize hostile nations that are obstacles to Israel’s restoration.