Go, eat your bread with mirth, and drink your wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favorably accepted your works.

Therefore I urge you to take food, for this is for your deliverance; for not a hair from your head shall fall."

And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, and appear before Ahab, and I will bring rain upon the face of the earth.

And Elijah the prophet, the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.