Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
prayed . . . and—that is, "and so." Mark the connection between the prayer and its accomplishment.
her fruit—her usual and due fruit, heretofore withheld on account of sin. Three and a half years is the time also that the two witnesses prophesy who "have power to shut and open heaven that it rain not."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing James 5:18:
Daniel 9:24
Amos 7:3
1 John 5:17
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