1 Kings 8:37
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1 Kings 8:37
King James Version
37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
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1 Kings 18:2
New International Version
2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.
Now the famine was severe(A) in Samaria,
1 Kings 18:2
King James Version
2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
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2 Kings 4:38
New International Version
Death in the Pot
38 Elisha returned to Gilgal(A) and there was a famine(B) in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”
2 Kings 4:38
King James Version
38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
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2 Kings 6:25
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25 There was a great famine(A) in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels[a] of silver, and a quarter of a cab[b] of seed pods[c](B) for five shekels.[d]
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 6:25 That is, about 2 pounds or about 920 grams
- 2 Kings 6:25 That is, probably about 1/4 pound or about 100 grams
- 2 Kings 6:25 Or of doves’ dung
- 2 Kings 6:25 That is, about 2 ounces or about 58 grams
2 Kings 6:25
King James Version
25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
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2 Kings 8:1
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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)
2 Kings 8:1
King James Version
8 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
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2 Kings 25:3
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3 By the ninth day of the fourth[a] month the famine(A) in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 25:3 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth.
2 Kings 25:3
King James Version
3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
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Psalm 105:16
New International Version
16 He called down famine(A) on the land
and destroyed all their supplies of food;
Psalm 105:16
King James Version
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
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Isaiah 3:1
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Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
Isaiah 3:1
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3 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
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Isaiah 9:20
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Isaiah 9:20
King James Version
20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
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Jeremiah 37:21
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21 King Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread from the street of the bakers each day until all the bread(A) in the city was gone.(B) So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.(C)
Jeremiah 37:21
King James Version
21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
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Jeremiah 52:6
New International Version
6 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.(A)
Jeremiah 52:6
King James Version
6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
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Ezekiel 4:16
New International Version
16 He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off(A) the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,(B)
Ezekiel 4:16
King James Version
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
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Ezekiel 4:17
New International Version
17 for food and water will be scarce.(A) They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of[a] their sin.(B)
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- Ezekiel 4:17 Or away in
Ezekiel 4:17
King James Version
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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