⁵⁴ and the seven years of famine^(A) began,^(B) just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

The Shunammite’s Land Restored

8 Now Elisha had said to the woman^(A) whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a famine^(B) in the land that will last seven years.”^(C)

¹¹ I called for a drought^(A) on the fields and the mountains,^(B) on the grain, the new wine,^(C) the olive oil^(D) and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.^(E)”