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And it came to pass after a while ,.... Or "at the end of days" F24 מקץ ימים "in, vel a, fine dierum", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; , perhaps a year, which sometimes is the sense of this phrase, see Exodus 13:10 ,

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 Apud Joseph. Antiqu. l. 8. c. 13. sect. 2. 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, &c.;