Ruth 1:1
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Genesis 12:10
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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.
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Genesis 26:1
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Isaac and Abimelech
26 There was a famine in the land, besides (A)the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to (B)Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
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Ezekiel 14:13
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13 “Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its (A)supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it.
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Psalm 105:16
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2 Kings 8:1-2
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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.” 2 So the woman arose and did according to the saying of the man of God, and she went with her household and dwelt in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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Judges 17:8
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8 The man departed from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wherever he could find a place. Then he came to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
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Judges 2:16-18
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16 Nevertheless, (A)the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they (B)played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so. 18 And when the Lord raised up judges for them, (C)the Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; (D)for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.
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Genesis 43:1
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Joseph’s Brothers Return with Benjamin
43 Now the famine was (A)severe in the land.
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Amos 4:6
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Israel Did Not Accept Correction
6 “Also I gave you [a]cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in all your places;
(A)Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
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- Amos 4:6 Hunger
Joel 1:16-20
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16 Is not the food (A)cut off before our eyes,
(B)Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed shrivels under the clods,
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
18 How (C)the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep [a]suffer punishment.
19 O Lord, (D)to You I cry out;
For (E)fire has devoured the [b]open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
20 The beasts of the field also (F)cry out to You,
For (G)the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the [c]open pastures.
Joel 1:10-11
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10 The field is wasted,
(A)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
(B)The new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.
11 (C)Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
Ezekiel 14:21
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21 For thus says the Lord God: “How much more it shall be when (A)I send My four [a]severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence—to cut off man and beast from it?
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- Ezekiel 14:21 Lit. evil
Jeremiah 14:1
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Sword, Famine, and Pestilence
14 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
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Psalm 107:34
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- Psalm 107:34 Lit. a salty waste
1 Kings 18:2
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2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab; and there was a severe famine in Samaria.
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1 Kings 17:1-12
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Elijah Proclaims a Drought
17 And Elijah the Tishbite, of the (A)inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, (B)“As the Lord God of Israel lives, (C)before whom I stand, (D)there shall not be dew nor rain (E)these years, except at my word.”
2 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 3 “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 4 And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the (F)ravens to feed you there.”
5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into 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 brook. 7 And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
Elijah and the Widow
8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 9 “Arise, go to (G)Zarephath, which belongs to (H)Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.” 11 And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12 So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a [a]jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and (I)die.”
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- 1 Kings 17:12 Lit. pitcher or water jar
Judges 19:1-2
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The Levite’s Concubine
19 And it came to pass in those days, (A)when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from (B)Bethlehem in Judah. 2 But his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there four whole months.
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Judges 12:8
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Deuteronomy 28:38
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38 (A)“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for (B)the locust shall [a]consume it.
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- Deuteronomy 28:38 devour
Leviticus 26:19
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19 I will (A)break the pride of your power;
I (B)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
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 (A)inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, “It is because of Saul and his [a]bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
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- 2 Samuel 21:1 Lit. house of bloodshed
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
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23 And (A)your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
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