JAMES—NOTE ON James 5:17 Elijah illustrates how a man with a nature like ours could have a powerful prayer life. The drought recorded in 1 Kings 17:1 was punishment on King Ahab and Israel for idolatry. The three years and six months is probably taken from “in the third year” (1 Kings 18:1) as symbolic of judgment (half of seven; see Daniel 7:25; Daniel 12:7).

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