41 Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain."

42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees. 43 He said to his servant, "Go up now and look toward the sea."

He went up and looked, then said, "There is nothing."

He said, "Go again" seven times.

44 On the seventh time, he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea."

He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’"

45 In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

41 And Elijah saith to Ahab, Go up, eat and drink, because of the sound of the noise of the shower.

42 And Ahab goeth up to eat, and to drink, and Elijah hath gone up unto the top of Carmel, and he stretcheth himself out on the earth, and he placeth his face between his knees,

43 and saith unto his young man, Go up, I pray thee, look attentively the way of the sea; and he goeth up and looketh attentively, and saith, There is nothing; and he saith, Turn back, seven times.

44 And it cometh to pass, at the seventh, that he saith, Lo, a little thickness as the palm of a man is coming up out of the sea. And he saith, Go up, say unto Ahab, Bind -- and go down, and the shower doth not restrain thee.

45 And it cometh to pass, in the meantime, that the heavens have become black -- thick clouds and wind -- and the shower is great; and Ahab rideth, and goeth to Jezreel,