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There was now a prophet of God Almighty, of Thesbon, a country in
Gilead, that came to Ahab, and said to him, that God foretold he would
not send rain nor dew in those years upon the country but when he should
appear. And when he had confirmed this by an oath, he departed into the
southern parts, and made his abode by a brook, out of which he had water
to drink; for as for his food, ravens brought it to him every day: but
when that river was dried up for want of rain, he came to Zarephath, a
city not far from Sidon and Tyre, for it lay between them, and this at
the command of God, for [God told him] that he should there find a woman
who was a widow that should give him sustenance. So when he was not far
off the city, he saw a woman that labored with her own hands, gathering
of sticks: so God informed him that this was the woman who was to give
him sustenance. So he came and saluted her, and desired her to bring him
some water to drink; but as she was going so to do, he called to her, and
would have her to bring him a loaf of bread also; whereupon she affirmed
upon oath that she had at home nothing more than one handful of meal, and
a little oil, and that she was going to gather some sticks, that she might
knead it, and make bread for herself and her son; after which, she said,
they must perish, and be consumed by the famine, for they had nothing for
themselves any longer. Hereupon he said, "Go on with good courage,
and hope for better things; and first of all make me a little cake, and
bring it to me, for I foretell to thee that this vessel of meal and this
cruse of oil shall not fail until God send rain." When the prophet
had said this, she came to him, and made him the before-named cake; of
which she had part for herself, and gave the rest to her son, and to the
prophet also; nor did any thing of this fall until the drought ceased.
Now Menander mentions this drought in his account of the acts of Ethbaal,
king of the Tyrians; where he says thus: "Under him there was a want
of rain from the month Hyperberetmus till the month Hyperberetmus of the
year following; but when he made supplications, there came great thunders.
This Ethbaal built the city Botrys in Phoenicia, and the city Auza in Libya."
By these words he designed the want of rain that was in the days of Ahab,
for at that time it was that Ethbaal also reigned over the Tyrians, as
Menander informs us.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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