1 Kings 18:43-45

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⁴³ Then Elijah said to his servant, “Go and look toward the sea.”

The servant went and looked. “I see nothing,” he said.

Elijah told him to go and look again. This happened seven times. ⁴⁴ The seventh time, the servant said, “I see a small cloud, the size of a ·human fist [man’s hand], ·coming [rising] from the sea.”

Elijah told the servant, “Go to Ahab and tell him to get his chariot ready and go ·home [^Ldown] now. Otherwise, the rain will stop him.”

⁴⁵ After a short time the sky ·was covered with dark [grew black with] clouds. The wind began to blow, and soon a ·heavy [torrential] rain began to fall [^Cshowing that it was the Lord, not Baal, that supplied the rain]. Ahab got in his chariot and started back to Jezreel.