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His prophecy was that there would be no rain for 3 1/2 years, and there would not be any dew either - unless he said so. Now we will see what God does through Elijah. So Elijah comes into his presence and brings this word of judgement to Ahab. Looking again at the 1 st verse of this chapter, we noticed that it was a small thing for Elijah to stand before Ahab because he had stood before the King of Kings. So it was in this context that Elijah came to speak forth the word of judgement in the presence of Ahab.ฤก Kings 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."
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She did many evil things such as setting up high places for Baal and she also had the prophets of the Lord killed. However, before long Jezebel tried to wipe out Yahweh's name from the land. Now Baal was the god of fertility, the god of rain, and the god of the increase of their crops. Ahab went along with her in everything she proposed, even setting up an idol in the house of Baal in Samaria. She began with pluralism, which meant that it was alright to worship more than one God - both Yahweh and Baal. Now Ahab had married a Sidonian princess who influenced her husband greatly. 1st Kings 16:30 tells us that he did more evil in the sight of the Lord than all that were before him. Various kings reigned after Jeroboam but the Bible says that the worst king of the Northern tribes was Ahab.
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This caused idolatry to come into the land because the people worshipped these and were led astray. He feared that they would not return if they went down there, so he set up temples in which he placed idols and golden calves. After Solomon's death there was a split in the Kingdom Jeroboam was the King in the northern kingdom of Israel and he set up alternate places of worship because he was afraid of his people going down to Jerusalem to worship. Last time we looked at the state of Israel at the time Elijah came on the scene. This is the second message on Elijah and we are in 1 Kings chapter 17. Let's look at another character study on Elijah. Elijah's 'cutting away' at brook Cherith Bible Study