A while — Heb. at the end of days; that is, of a year; for so the word days is often used. Dried — 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 to depend upon God alone.
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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.