17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours [with the same physical, mental, and spiritual limitations and shortcomings], and he prayed *intensely for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. [1 Kin 17:1] 18 Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its crops [as usual]. [1 Kin 18:42-45]