After a while Hebrew, at the end of the days; that is, of a year, as that phrase is often used. The brook dried up For want of rain, and God so ordering it for the punishment of those Israelites who lived near it, and had hitherto been refreshed by it; and for the exercise of Elijah's faith, and to teach him still to depend on God alone, and not on any natural means for support and preservation.
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1 Kings 17:7
7 And it came to pass afterb a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.