James 5:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

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  • 1 Kgs 18:42-45 : 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, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times. 44 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you. 45 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
  • 1 Kgs 18:18 : 18 He answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals.

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  • Jas 5:15-17
    3 verses
    86%

    15and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

    16Confess your offenses to one another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effective, earnest prayer of a righteous man is powerfully effective.

    17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.

    2Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was sore in Samaria.

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

    35When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:

    36then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

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

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

    42So 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.

    43He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times.

    44It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you.

    45It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:

    46and the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

  • 2 Chr 6:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:

    27then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

  • Zech 10:1
    72%

    1Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, And he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

  • Heb 6:7
    71%

    7For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

    2The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 17:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

    8The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • Job 5:10
    70%

    10Who gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields;

  • Jas 5:7
    70%

    7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

  • Deut 11:14
    69%

    14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.

  • Amos 4:7
    69%

    7"I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.

  • Isa 55:10
    69%

    10For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

  • Hag 1:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

    11I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of the hands."

  • Jas 5:19
    68%

    19Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,

  • Deut 11:17
    68%

    17and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

  • Lev 26:4
    68%

    4then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

  • 1 Kgs 18:35
    67%

    35The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

  • 1 Sam 12:18
    67%

    18So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.

  • Job 38:26-27
    2 verses
    66%

    26To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man;

    27To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?

  • 2 Kgs 1:13
    66%

    13Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.

  • Jer 14:22
    66%

    22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

  • Luke 5:16
    66%

    16But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

  • Gen 8:2
    66%

    2The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

  • Jer 5:24
    66%

    24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

  • 1 Kgs 17:14
    66%

    14For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.

  • Gen 2:6
    66%

    6but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

  • Joel 2:23
    65%

    23"Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in Yahweh, your God; For he gives you the former rain in just measure, And he causes the rain to come down for you, The former rain and the latter rain, As before.

  • Luke 18:1
    65%

    1He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    65%

    28The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • Job 37:6
    65%

    6For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' Likewise to the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain.

  • Luke 22:41
    65%

    41He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and he knelt down and prayed,

  • Exod 9:33
    65%

    33Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 17:21
    65%

    21He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come into him again.

  • Gen 1:11
    65%

    11God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.