And it came to pass after a while
Or "at the end of days" {x}, perhaps a year, which sometimes is
the sense of this phrase, see ( Exodus 13:10
) ( Judges
17:10 ) ,
that the brook dried up;
through the excessive heat, and for want of supplies from the
springs and fountains with which it was fed, and for the
following reason:
because there had been no rain in the land;
from the time Elijah prayed and prophesied; of this drought
mention is made in profane history: Menander, a Phoenician
writer, speaks F25 of a drought in the times of
Ithobalus (the same with Ethbaal the father of Jezebel), which
lasted a whole year, and upon prayer being made there were
thunder