Cross references

1 Kings 18:1

After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”

1 Kings 18:1 BSB
  1. a Literally And the days were many, and in the third year,

1 Kings 18:1 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Luke 4:25 (9 votes) and James 5:17 (7 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 20 to Revelation 11.

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Which verses does 1 Kings 18:1 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Luke 4:259 votes

    But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

  2. James 5:177 votes

    Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

  3. The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.

  4. Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

  5. Then Elijah said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to Ahab today.” So Obadiah went to inform Ahab, who went to meet Elijah. …

  6. So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,

  7. I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

  8. Joel 2:232 votes

    Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

  9. Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

  10. So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.

  11. Amos 4:71 vote

Which verses point to 1 Kings 18:1?

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