【文摘】 From that day all the moisture in the land began to dry up.No soft,warm rain fell from the sky in the day-time,and,worse still,no silvery dew spangled the grass at night.All the little bubbling streams that flowed by the ivory palace disappeared from their pebbly beds.Hot and cruel,like a great ball of brass,the sun stared down on the scorched meadows where Joseph's young feet had trodden among the fiowers; cold and cruel,and without any softness,the moon glittered through the fading leaves of Jacob's oak. Ahab and Jezebel,who thought that Elijah had done allthis,searched the whole land through to find him.Jezebelwanted to put him to death with the other prophets.Only Obadiah,the governor,hid a hundred of these prophets,for he knew that there was a God who was far above the sun and the moon. And where was Elijah all this time? He was hidden in a cave by the rushing,leaping waters of the brook Cherith.Great rocks overhung the gorge through which the stream ran,and black ravens nested among the crags.And the ravens,commanded by God,every morning and evening brought bread and meat to Elijah,while,to quench his thirst,he drank the cold water from the stream. By and by,because there was still no rain in the land,even the deep churning brook of Cherith dried up,and Elijahwas,taken care of,for a time,by a widow woman.She hadonly a little food left in the house when he went to her.But,so long as he lived there,the food,by a miracle,never grew less.Then the time came when God told Elijah to go toAhab again. Ahab,when he saw the prophet,was afraid,but hedarednot do anything to him now.Everybody was dying oframine under the sun and moon; for,without rain and dew,nithing would grow.The King asked Elijah ifit were he thatwastroubling Israel.But Elijah told Ahab that the trouble hadcome through himself.
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