TOPICAL BIBLE
Famine
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Genesis 12:10Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.Genesis 26:1Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.Genesis 41:53When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,Genesis 41:54the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.Genesis 41:55When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”Genesis 41:56When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.Genesis 41:57And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.Leviticus 26:19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,Leviticus 26:20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.Leviticus 26:21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.Leviticus 26:22I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.Leviticus 26:23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,Leviticus 26:24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.Leviticus 26:25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.Leviticus 26:27But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,Leviticus 26:28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.Deuteronomy 28:23The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.Deuteronomy 28:24The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.Deuteronomy 28:39You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.Deuteronomy 28:40You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.Deuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.Deuteronomy 28:42Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.Deuteronomy 28:53Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.Deuteronomy 28:54The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,Deuteronomy 28:55refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.Deuteronomy 28:56The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughterDeuteronomy 28:57the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.2 Samuel 18:1Then David reviewed his troops and appointed over them commanders of thousands and of hundreds.2 Samuel 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.2 Kings 6:26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”2 Kings 6:27He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”2 Kings 6:28Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’2 Kings 6:29So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”2 Kings 7:4If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”2 Kings 8:1Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.”2 Kings 25:3By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.1 Chronicles 21:12between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”Job 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.Psalm 33:19to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.Psalm 37:19In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.Psalm 105:16He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.Psalm 107:33He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,Psalm 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.Isaiah 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,Isaiah 3:2the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,Isaiah 3:3the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.Isaiah 3:4“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”Isaiah 3:5The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.Isaiah 3:6A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”Isaiah 3:7On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.Isaiah 5:13Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.Isaiah 9:19By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.Isaiah 9:20They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.
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