Contradiction with Genesis 8:22
While Genesis 8:22 speaks of the constancy of seasonal cycles, 1 Kings 18:44 narrates a miraculous weather event, implying interruptions in natural expectations.
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 Job 37:14-18
Job speaks of God's control over the weather, yet 1 Kings 18:44 suggests human intervention through prayer can influence it.
Job 37:14-18: Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
Contradiction with Jeremiah 14:22
This verse implies that idols cannot bring rain, contrasting with 1 Kings 18:44 where a prophetic action seemingly results in rain.
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
James suggests Elijah prayed earnestly for rain, while 1 Kings 18:44 describes a single interaction before rain appeared.
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]