Ruth 1:1
In the days when the judges governed [Israel], there was a famine in the land [of Canaan]. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live temporarily in the
Genesis 12:10
Now there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive and severe.
Genesis 26:1
Now there was a famine in the land [of Canaan], besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to
Genesis 43:1
Now the famine was very severe in the land [of Canaan].
Judges 17:8
Then the man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he could find a place; and as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.
Psalm 105:16
And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He
Leviticus 26:19
I will break your pride in your power, and I will make your sky like iron [giving no rain and blocking all prayers] and your ground like bronze [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze [giving no rain and blocking all prayers], and the earth which is under you, iron [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
Deuteronomy 28:38
“You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.
Judges 2:16-18
Then the Lord raised up
Judges 12:8
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Judges 19:1-2
Now it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite living [as an alien] in the most remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a
2 Samuel 21:1
There was famine in the days of David for three consecutive years; and David sought the presence (face) of the Lord [asking the reason]. The Lord replied, “It is because of Saul and his bloody house, because
1 Kings 17:1-12
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
1 Kings 18:2
So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
2 Kings 8:1-2
Now Elisha had said to the [Shunammite] woman whose son he had restored to life, “Prepare and go, you and your household, and
Psalm 107:34
A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Jeremiah 14:1
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Ezekiel 14:13
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it and destroy its source of bread and send famine on it and cut off from it both man and animal,
Ezekiel 14:21
For thus says the Lord God, “How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem—sword, famine, predatory beasts, and virulent disease—to cut off man and animal from it!
Joel 1:10-11
The field is ruined,
The ground mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine is dried up,
The fresh oil fails.
Joel 1:16-20
Has not the food been cut off before our eyes,
Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Amos 4:6
“I also gave you cleanness of teeth [because of the famine] in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the Lord.
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The judges
A famine
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The judges
A famine
And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He
A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
The field is ruined,
The ground mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine is dried up,
The fresh oil fails.
“I also gave you cleanness of teeth [because of the famine] in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the Lord.