In Context

1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, |As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.|

2 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

3 |Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

4 It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.|

5 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

6 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

1 Kings 17:4 in Other Translations