James 5:18

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Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 18:42-45 : 42 So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees. 43 He told his servant,“Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported,“There is nothing.” Seven times Elijah sent him to look. 44 The seventh time the servant said,“Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah then said,“Go and tell Ahab,‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” 45 Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel.
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”
  • 1 Kgs 18:18 : 18 Elijah replied,“I have not brought disaster on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the LORD’s commandments and following the Baals.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 5:15-17
    3 verses
    86%

    15And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up– and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

    16So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.

    17Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1Elijah Meets the King’s Servant Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the LORD’S message came to Elijah,“Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

    2So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab.Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 8:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35“The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

    36then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly you will then teach them the right way to live and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.

  • 1 Kgs 18:41-46
    6 verses
    72%

    41Then Elijah told Ahab,“Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard.”

    42So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.

    43He told his servant,“Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported,“There is nothing.” Seven times Elijah sent him to look.

    44The seventh time the servant said,“Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah then said,“Go and tell Ahab,‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’”

    45Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel.

    46Now the LORD energized Elijah with power; he tucked his robe into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

  • 2 Chr 6:26-27
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    26“The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

    27then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly you will then teach them the right way to live and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.

  • Zech 10:1
    72%

    1The Restoration of the True People Ask the LORD for rain in the season of the late spring rains– the LORD who causes thunderstorms– and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

  • Heb 6:7
    71%

    7For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,“As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives(whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”

    2The LORD’s message came to him:

  • 1 Kgs 17:7-8
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    70%

    7After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

    8The LORD’s message came to him,

  • Job 5:10
    70%

    10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • Jas 5:7
    70%

    7Patience in Suffering So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.

  • Deut 11:14
    69%

    14then he promises,“I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

  • Amos 4:7
    69%

    7“I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.

  • Isa 55:10
    69%

    10The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

  • Hag 1:10-11
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    68%

    10This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.

    11Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.’”

  • Jas 5:19
    68%

    19My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

  • Deut 11:17
    68%

    17Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

  • Lev 26:4
    68%

    4I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

  • 1 Kgs 18:35
    67%

    35The water flowed down all sides of the altar and filled the trench.

  • 1 Sam 12:18
    67%

    18So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the LORD and Samuel.

  • Job 38:26-27
    2 verses
    66%

    26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,

    27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

  • 2 Kgs 1:13
    66%

    13The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy,“Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

  • Jer 14:22
    66%

    22Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”

  • Luke 5:16
    66%

    16Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.

  • Gen 8:2
    66%

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

  • Jer 5:24
    66%

    24They do not say to themselves,“Let us revere the LORD our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”

  • 1 Kgs 17:14
    66%

    14For this is what the LORD God of Israel has said,‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the LORD makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”

  • Gen 2:6
    66%

    6Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

  • Joel 2:23
    65%

    23Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the LORD your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains– both the early and the late rains as formerly.

  • Luke 18:1
    65%

    1Prayer and the Parable of the Persistent Widow Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    65%

    28The LORD’s message came to Elijah the Tishbite,

  • Job 37:6
    65%

    6For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

  • Luke 22:41
    65%

    41He went away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed,

  • Exod 9:33
    65%

    33So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain stopped pouring on the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 17:21
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    21He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”

  • Gen 1:11
    65%

    11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.