Ruth 1:1
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Elimelech’s Family Goes to Moab
1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and two sons.(A)
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Genesis 12:10
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Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.
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Genesis 26:1
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Isaac and Abimelech
26 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to King Abimelech of the Philistines.(A)
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Ezekiel 14:13
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13 Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly and I stretch out my hand against it and cut off its supply of bread[a] and send famine upon it and cut off from it humans and animals,(A)
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- 14.13 Heb staff of bread
Psalm 105:16
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- 105.16 Heb staff of bread
2 Kings 8:1-2
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The Shunammite Woman’s Land Restored
8 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get up and go with your household and settle wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.”(A) 2 So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God; she went with her household and settled in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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Judges 17:8
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8 This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to live wherever he could find a place. He came to the house of Micah in the hill country of Ephraim to carry on his work.[a]
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- 17.8 Or Ephraim, continuing his journey
Judges 2:16-18
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16 Then the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the power of those who plundered them.(A) 17 Yet they did not listen even to their judges, for they lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord; they did not follow their example.(B) 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for the Lord would be moved to pity by their groaning because of those who persecuted and oppressed them.
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Genesis 43:1
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The Brothers Come Again, Bringing Benjamin
43 Now the famine was severe in the land.(A)
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Amos 4:6
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Israel Rejects Correction
6 I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities
and lack of bread in all your places;
yet you did not return to me,
says the Lord.(A)
Joel 1:16-20
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16 Is not the food cut off
before our eyes,
joy and gladness
from the house of our God?(A)
17 The seed shrivels under the clods;[a]
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are ruined
because the grain has withered.
18 How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle wander about
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep are perishing.(B)
19 To you, O Lord, I cry,
for fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness,
and flames have burned
all the trees of the field.(C)
20 Even the wild animals cry to you
because the watercourses are dried up,
and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.(D)
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- 1.17 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Joel 1:10-11
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10 The fields are devastated,
the ground mourns,
for the grain is destroyed,
the wine dries up,
the oil fails.(A)
11 Be dismayed, you farmers;
wail, you vinedressers,
over the wheat and the barley,
for the crops of the field are ruined.(B)
Ezekiel 14:21
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21 Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!(A)
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Jeremiah 14:1
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The Great Drought
14 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:(A)
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Psalm 107:34
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34 a fruitful land into a salty waste,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.(A)
1 Kings 18:2
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2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
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1 Kings 17:1-12
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Elijah Predicts a Drought
17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe[a] in 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.”(A) 2 The word of the Lord came to him, saying, 3 “Go from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 4 You shall drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; he went and lived by the Wadi Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi. 7 But after a while the wadi dried up because there was no rain in the land.
The Widow of Zarephath
8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 9 “Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there, for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”(B) 10 So he set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, a widow was there gathering sticks; he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.” 11 As she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” 12 But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”(C)
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- 17.1 Gk: Heb of the settlers
Judges 19:1-2
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The Levite’s Concubine
19 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.(A) 2 But his concubine became angry with[a] him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah and was there some four months.
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- 19.2 Gk OL: Heb prostituted herself against
Judges 12:8
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Deuteronomy 28:38
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38 “You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.(A)
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Leviticus 26:19
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19 I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper.(A)
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2 Samuel 21:1
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David Avenges the Gibeonites
21 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year, and David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
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Deuteronomy 28:23-24
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23 The sky over your head shall be bronze and the earth under you iron.(A) 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land into powder, and only dust shall come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.
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