1 Kings 17:7

and it came to pass after awhile, [Heb. at the end of days . Not necessarily post annum . The words no doubt have this force elsewhere, Le 25:29; 11:40 ; 17:10 ; 1 Samuel 27:7 , etc.; but in all these cases, the meaning is not resident in the words themselves, but in the context. It is impossible to say how long Elijah remained in the Wady. All we can be sure of is that he must have been more than two rears, out of the three and a haft, at Zare-phath. See on 1 Kings 18:1 ] that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. [ גֶּשֶׁם , imber, signifies heavy rain . The word used in 1 Kings 18:1 is מָטָר , rain of any kind .]