When the Egyptians began to be hungry, they cried out to the king for food. So he ordered them to go to Joseph and do what he told them.

The Famine

The famine was so severe that there was no food anywhere, and the people of Egypt and Canaan became weak with hunger.

I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.

He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the Lord says.

The people who once were well fed now hire themselves out to get food, but the hungry are hungry no more. The childless wife has borne seven children, but the mother of many is left with none.

Events after the Battle

The Israelites were weak with hunger that day, because Saul, with a solemn oath, had given the order: “A curse be on anyone who eats any food today before I take revenge on my enemies.” So nobody had eaten anything all day.

But one of the men told him, “We are all weak from hunger, but your father threatened us and said, ‘A curse be on anyone who eats any food today.’”

They brought bowls, clay pots, and bedding, and also food for David and his men: wheat, barley, meal, roasted grain, beans, peas, honey, cheese, cream, and some sheep. They knew that David and his men would get hungry, thirsty, and tired in the wilderness.

If they were hungry, I shared my food with them; if they needed clothes, I gave them some of my own. Whenever I saw that the dead body of one of my people had been thrown outside the city wall, I gave it a decent burial.

Give food to the hungry and clothes to people in need. If you are prosperous, give generously, and do it gladly!

Do you find food for lions to eat, and satisfy hungry young lions

Who is it that feeds the ravens when they wander about hungry, when their young cry to me for food?

Even lions go hungry for lack of food, but those who obey the Lord lack nothing good.

“If I were hungry, I would not ask you for food, for the world and everything in it is mine.

he judges in favor of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free

People don't despise a thief if he steals food when he is hungry;

When you are full, you will refuse honey, but when you are hungry, even bitter food tastes sweet.

But you, O Lord, did not punish your people in this way; instead, you showed them kindness. You sent them quails to eat, a rare, delicious food to satisfy their hunger.

You did all this so that the idolaters, when they were hungry, would be unable to eat because of the disgusting creatures sent to them. Your people, however, suffered hunger only a short while, and then they ate the finest food.

Later, when they desperately wanted better food, quails came up from the sea to satisfy their hunger. The quail was a bird they had never seen before.

Everywhere in the country people snatch and eat any bit of food they can find, but their hunger is never satisfied. They even eat their own children!

Why spend money on what does not satisfy? Why spend your wages and still be hungry? Listen to me and do what I say, and you will enjoy the best food of all.

Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor. Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear, and do not refuse to help your own relatives.

if you give food to the hungry and satisfy those who are in need, then the darkness around you will turn to the brightness of noon.

I will refresh those who are weary and will satisfy with food everyone who is weak from hunger.