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Contemporary English Version

1 Kings 17:7

But after a while, it dried up because there was no rain.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Cherith;   Elijah;   Minister, Christian;   Readings, Select;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Rain;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   John the baptist;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Widow;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Achan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kings, 1 and 2;   Zarephath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Haggai;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elijah;   Famine;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Rain;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After a while, the wadi dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
Hebrew Names Version
It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
King James Version
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
English Standard Version
And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
New Century Version
After a while the stream dried up because there was no rain.
New English Translation
After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
Amplified Bible
It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
New American Standard Bible
But it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And after a while the riuer dryed vp, because there fell no rayne vpon the earth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Complete Jewish Bible
After a while the stream dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Darby Translation
And it came to pass after a while that the torrent dried up, for there had been no rain in the land.
Easy-to-Read Version
There was no rain, so after a while the stream became dry.
George Lamsa Translation
But after a while the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
Good News Translation
After a while the brook dried up because of the lack of rain.
Lexham English Bible
It happened after a while that the wadi dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Literal Translation
And it happened after a while, that the torrent dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And it fortuned after cerayne dayes, that the riuer was dryed: vp for there was no rayne in the lode.
American Standard Version
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Bible in Basic English
Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And it chaunced after a while that the brooke dryed vp, because there fell no rayne vpon the earth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
King James Version (1611)
And it came to passe after a while, that the brooke dryed vp, because there had beene no raine in the land.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass after some time, that the brook was dried up, because there had been no rain upon the earth.
English Revised Version
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Berean Standard Bible
Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe after summe daies the stronde was dried; for it hadde not reynede on the erthe.
Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, at the end of days, that the brook drieth up, for there hath been no rain in the land,
Update Bible Version
And it came to pass after awhile, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
World English Bible
It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
New King James Version
And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
New Living Translation
But after a while the brook dried up, for there was no rainfall anywhere in the land.
New Life Bible
But after a while, the river dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
New Revised Standard
But after a while the wadi dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But it came to pass, at the end of certain days, that the torrent dried up, - because there had been no rain in the land.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But after some time the torrent was dried up: for it had not rained upon the earth.
Revised Standard Version
And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
THE MESSAGE
Eventually the brook dried up because of the drought. Then God spoke to him: "Get up and go to Zarephath in Sidon and live there. I've instructed a woman who lives there, a widow, to feed you."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

Contextual Overview

1 Elijah was a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead. One day he went to King Ahab and said, "I'm a servant of the living Lord , the God of Israel. And I swear in his name that it won't rain until I say so. There won't even be any dew on the ground." 2 Later, the Lord said to Elijah, 3 "Leave and go across the Jordan River so you can hide near Cherith Creek. 4 You can drink water from the creek, and eat the food I've told the ravens to bring you." 5 Elijah obeyed the Lord and went to live near Cherith Creek. 6 Ravens brought him bread and meat twice a day, and he drank water from the creek. 7 But after a while, it dried up because there was no rain.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3095, bc 909

after a while: Heb. at the end of days

the brook: Isaiah 40:30, Isaiah 40:31, Isaiah 54:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:3 - in process of time 1 Kings 18:1 - in the third year 2 Chronicles 18:2 - after certain years Jeremiah 14:3 - pits Joel 1:20 - the rivers

Cross-References

Genesis 15:18
At that time the Lord made an agreement with Abram and told him: I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River.
Genesis 17:6
I will give you a lot of descendants, and in the future they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.
Genesis 17:7
I will always keep the promise I have made to you and your descendants, because I am your God and their God.
Genesis 17:8
I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:9
Abraham, you and all future members of your family must promise to obey me.
Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and you will have a son by her. She will become the mother of nations, and some of her descendants will even be kings.
Genesis 17:17
Abraham bowed with his face to the ground and thought, "I am almost a hundred years old. How can I become a father? And Sarah is ninety. How can she have a child?" So he started laughing.
Genesis 28:13
The Lord was standing beside the ladder and said: I am the Lord God who was worshiped by Abraham and Isaac. I will give to you and your family the land on which you are now sleeping.
Exodus 3:6
I am the God who was worshiped by your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." Moses was afraid to look at God, and so he hid his face.
Exodus 6:4
I made an agreement and promised them the land of Canaan, where they were living as foreigners.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass after a while,.... Or "at the end of days" x, perhaps a year, which sometimes is the sense of this phrase, see

Exodus 13:10,

that the brook dried up; through the excessive heat, and for want of supplies from the springs and fountains with which it was fed, and for the following reason:

because there had been no rain in the land; from the time Elijah prayed and prophesied; of this drought mention is made in profane history: Menander, a Phoenician writer, speaks y of a drought in the times of Ithobalus (the same with Ethbaal the father of Jezebel), which lasted a whole year, and upon prayer being made there were thunder, &c.

x מקץ ימים "in, vel a, fine dierum", Pagninus, Montanus, &c. y Apud Joseph. Antiqu. l. 8. c. 13. sect. 2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 17:7. The brook dried up — Because there had been no rain in the land for some time, God having sent this drought as a testimony against the idolatry of the people: see Deuteronomy 11:16-17.


 
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