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Photo - A walk bridge Counting your chickens before they ve hatched is as true today as it has always been, as even explained in the Bible.
The Online Idiom Dictionary explains it as Don t make future plans on something that has not yet happened and provides several similar idioms such as Jumping the gun .
Sometimes it takes more than one astonishing event to convince someone of truth, and this was such a situation for Ahab, King of Israel. The Bible gives the following background:
King Ahab had not exactly been faithful to the God of Israel and as a result, his country had been in a severe drought. His wife, Jezebel had been a priestess of the Canaanite god Baal, who was supposed to bring rain. Elijah, the true God (Yahweh) prophet, had already wrought several miracles before God finally sent him to test Ahab.