(7) And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
Perhaps this drying of the brook was for the exercise of Elijah. And when our friends, like Job's, deal deceitfully by us, as a brook, (Job 6:15) or when all creatures comfort fail; how sweet is it to live upon the full and never-ceasing fountain? Jesus is all this to his people! God the Father is a fountain, and the Holy Ghost also: See Zechariah 13:1; Jeremiah 2:13; John 7:37-39.