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Genesis 12:10
There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.
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Genesis 26:1
There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
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Ezekiel 14:13
“ Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
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Psalms 105:16
He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply.
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2 Kings 8 1-2 Kings 8 2
Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life,“ You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the LORD has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”So the woman did as the prophet said. She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
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Genesis 43:1
Now the famine was severe in the land.
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Judges 17:8
This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house.
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2 Samuel 21 1
During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the LORD. The LORD said,“ It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
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1 Kings 18 2
So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
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Deuteronomy 28:23-24
The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
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Judges 2:16-18
The LORD raised up leaders who delivered them from these robbers.But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.When the LORD raised up leaders for them, the LORD was with each leader and delivered the people from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The LORD felt sorry for them when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.
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Joel 1:16-20
Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the grassy pastures, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the grassy pastures.
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Joel 1:10-11
The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.
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Deuteronomy 28:38
“ You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
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Amos 4:6
“ But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
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Judges 12:8
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel.
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1 Kings 17 1-1 Kings 17 12
Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,“ As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives( whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”The LORD told him:“ Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.”So he did as the LORD told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.The LORD told him,“ Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.”So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her,“ Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink.”As she went to get it, he called out to her,“ Please bring me a piece of bread.”She said,“ As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.”
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Judges 19:1-2
In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,
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Ezekiel 14:21
“ For this is what the sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments– sword, famine, wild animals, and plague– to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals!
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Psalms 107:34
and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
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Leviticus 26:19
I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.
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Jeremiah 14:1
The LORD spoke to Jeremiah about the drought.