Contradiction with Genesis 8:22
This verse talks about the continuity of seasons, suggesting no interruption like the drought in 1 Kings 18:1.
Genesis 8:22: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. [While...: Heb. As yet all the days of the earth]
Contradiction with Jeremiah 14:22
This verse underscores that only God controls rain, contradicting the notion of a prophet predicting rain cease in 1 Kings 18:1.
Jeremiah 14:22: Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].
Contradiction with James 5:17
This verse notes that Elijah prayed for drought, highlighting human intervention, which contrasts with God's direct command in 1 Kings 18:1.
James 5:17: Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. [subject...: of the same nature, that is, a fellow mortal] [earnestly: or, in his prayer]