1 Kings 18:1-2

New English Translation

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18 Some time later, in the third year of the famine,^[a] the Lord’s message came to Elijah, “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.” ² So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab.

Now the famine was severe in Samaria.