³⁰ but after them there will arise ^(A)seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. ^(B)The famine will consume the land,

Joseph and the Famine

¹³ Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.

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

¹⁷ Elijah was a man ^(A)with a nature like ours, and ^(B)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for ^(C)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

²⁵ But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when ^(A)the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,

The Shunammite's Land Restored

8 Now Elisha had said to the woman ^(A)whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord ^(B)has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for ^(C)seven years.”

Elijah Predicts a Drought