17 Elijah was a man *Acts 14:15with a nature like ours, and *1 Kgs. 17:1;18:1he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for *Luke 4:25three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 *1 Kgs. 18:42,45Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.