1 Elijah was a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead. One day he went to King Ahab and said, “I'm a servant of the living Lord, the God of Israel. And I swear in his name that it won't rain until I say so. There won't even be any dew on the ground.”
2 Later, the Lord said to Elijah,
3 “Leave and go across the River Jordan so you can hide near Cherith Brook.
4 You can drink water from the brook, and eat the food I've told the ravens to bring you.”
5 Elijah obeyed the Lord and went to live near Cherith Brook.
6 Ravens brought him bread and meat twice a day, and he drank water from the brook.
7 But after a while, it dried up because there was no rain.