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Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine[ was] grievous in the land.
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Genesis 26:1
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
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Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
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Psalms 105:16
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
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2 Kings 8 1-2 Kings 8 2
Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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Genesis 43:1
And the famine[ was] sore in the land.
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Judges 17:8
And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find[ a place]: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
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2 Samuel 21 1
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered,[ It is] for Saul, and for[ his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
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1 Kings 18 2
And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And[ there was] a sore famine in Samaria.
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Deuteronomy 28:23-24
And thy heaven that[ is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee[ shall be] iron.The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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Judges 2:16-18
Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD;[ but] they did not so.And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
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Joel 1:16-20
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes,[ yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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Joel 1:10-11
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
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Deuteronomy 28:38
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather[ but] little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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Amos 4:6
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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Judges 12:8
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
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1 Kings 17 1-1 Kings 17 12
And Elijah the Tishbite,[ who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab,[ As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that[ is] before Jordan.And it shall be,[ that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that[ is] before Jordan.And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which[ belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman[ was] there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.And as she was going to fetch[ it], he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.And she said,[ As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I[ am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
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Judges 19:1-2
And it came to pass in those days, when[ there was] no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.
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Ezekiel 14:21
For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
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Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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Jeremiah 14:1
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.