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1 Kings 17:1–7

1 Kings 17:1–75 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
- B 2-3 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
  - C 4a And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook;
    - D 4b and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
      - E 5a So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD:
      - E' 5b for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
    - D' 6a And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening;
  - C' 6b and he drank of the brook.
- B' 7a And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up,
A' 7b because there had been no rain in the land.