³⁰ This happened because of the sins^(A) Jeroboam had committed and had caused^(B) Israel to commit, and because he aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Elijah Announces a Great Drought

17 Now Elijah^(A) the Tishbite, from Tishbe^[a] in Gilead,^(B) said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain^(C) in the next few years except at my word.”