Ruth 1:1
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Naomi Widowed
1 In the days (A)when the judges ruled there was (B)a famine in the land, and a man of (C)Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
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Genesis 12:10
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Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10 Now (A)there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
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Genesis 26:1
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God's Promise to Isaac
26 Now there was a famine in the land, besides (A)the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to (B)Abimelech king of the (C)Philistines.
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Ezekiel 14:13
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13 (A)“Son of man, when a land sins against me (B)by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and (C)break its supply[a] of bread and send famine upon it, and (D)cut off from it man and beast,
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- Ezekiel 14:13 Hebrew staff
Psalm 105:16
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- Psalm 105:16 Hebrew staff
2 Kings 8:1-2
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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, “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.” 2 So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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Judges 17:8
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8 And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to (A)the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
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Judges 2:16-18
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The Lord Raises Up Judges
16 (A)Then the Lord raised up judges, (B)who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for (C)they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. (D)They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, (E)the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. (F)For the Lord was moved to pity by (G)their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
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Leviticus 26:19
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19 and I will break (A)the pride of your power, and I (B)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
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Genesis 43:1
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Amos 4:6
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Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord
6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and (A)lack of bread in all your places,
(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
Joel 1:16-20
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16 Is not the food cut off
before our eyes,
(A)joy and gladness
from the house of our God?
17 (B)The seed shrivels under the clods;[a]
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
because (C)the grain has dried up.
18 How (D)the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep suffer.[b]
19 To you, (E)O Lord, I call.
(F)For fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness,
(G)and flame has burned
all the trees of the field.
20 Even the beasts of the field (H)pant for you
because the water brooks are dried up,
(I)and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.
Joel 1:10-11
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Jeremiah 14:1
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Famine, Sword, and Pestilence
14 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning (A)the drought:
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Psalm 107:34
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34 (A)a fruitful land into a salty waste,
because of the evil of its inhabitants.
1 Kings 18:2
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2 So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now 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 (A)Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, (B)“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, (C)before whom I stand, (D)there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 2 And the word of the Lord came to him: 3 “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 4 You shall drink from the brook, 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 brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. 6 And 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 after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
The Widow of Zarephath
8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, 9 “Arise, go to (E)Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” 10 So he arose and went to (F)Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there (G)gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” 11 And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” 12 And she said, (H)“As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now 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 die.”
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- 1 Kings 17:1 Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers
Judges 19:1-2
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A Levite and His Concubine
19 In those days, (A)when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of (B)the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from (C)Bethlehem in Judah. 2 And his concubine was unfaithful to[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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- Judges 19:2 Septuagint, Old Latin became angry with
Judges 12:8
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Deuteronomy 28:38
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38 (A)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for (B)the locust shall consume it.
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Deuteronomy 28:23-24
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23 And (A)the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
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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 (A)sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
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