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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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.
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.
Footnotes
- 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.
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