1 Rois 17:7

Louis Segond

Mais au bout d'un certain temps le torrent fut à sec, car il n'était point tombé de pluie dans le pays.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Mais il arriva qu'au bout de quelque temps le torrent fut � sec, parce qu'il n'y avait pas eu de pluie au pays.

Darby's French Translation
Et il arriva, au bout de quelque temps, que le torrent s�cha, car il n'y avait pas de pluie dans le pays.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Mais il arriva qu'au bout de quelques jours le torrent tarit; parce qu'il n'y avait point eu de pluie au pays.

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

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.