Go ahead---eat your food and be happy; drink your wine and be cheerful. It's all right with God.

I beg you, then, eat some food; you need it in order to survive. Not even a hair of your heads will be lost."

After some time, in the third year of the drought, the LORD said to Elijah, "Go and present yourself to King Ahab, and I will send rain."

A prophet named Elijah, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to King Ahab, "In the name of the LORD, the living God of Israel, whom I serve, I tell you that there will be no dew or rain for the next two or three years until I say so."