The King Restores the Shunammite’s Land

8 Then Elisha spoke to the woman ^(A)whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the Lord ^(B)has called for a ^(C)famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years.”

¹¹ For I ^(A)called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on ^(B)all the labor of your hands.”

³¹ Now Gehazi went on ahead of them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice nor hearing. Therefore he went back to meet him, and told him, saying, “The child has ^(A)not awakened.”

³² When Elisha came into the house, there was the child, lying dead on his bed. ³³ He ^(B)went in therefore, shut the door behind the two of them, ^(C)and prayed to the Lord. ³⁴ And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands; and ^(D)he stretched himself out on the child, and the flesh of the child became warm. ³⁵ He returned and walked back and forth in the house, and again went up ^(E)and stretched himself out on him; then ^(F)the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

Elimelech’s Family Goes to Moab

1 Now it came to pass, in the days when ^(A)the judges ^[a]ruled, that there was ^(B)a famine in the land. And a certain man of ^(C)Bethlehem, Judah, went to ^[b]dwell in the country of ^(D)Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

¹⁸ And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers.

Abram in Egypt

¹⁰ Now there was ^(A)a famine in the land, and Abram ^(B)went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was ^(C)severe in the land.

²⁵ But I tell you truly, ^(A)many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land;

² So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab; and there was a severe famine in Samaria.