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So Joseph bought the whole land of Egypt, one and all selling their possessions to him because the famine was so grievous; and he made it Pharao’s property, (Genesis 47, 20)
such crops it will bear as shall give you food to your hearts’ content, shall deliver you, come what enemy may, from fear of famine. (Leviticus 25, 19)
What famine shall gnaw them, what winged terrors eat them up with destructive fangs! I will send wild beasts, too, to prey on them, poisonous serpents shall creep upon them through the dust. (Deuteronomy 32, 24)
In the old days, when Israel was ruled by judges, there was a man of Bethlehem-Juda that took his wife and his two sons to live in the Moabite country, to escape from a famine. (Ruth 1, 1)
There was a famine in David’s reign that lasted three years continuously; and when David consulted the Lord’s oracle he was told, It is because of Saul; he slew the Gabaonites, and the guilt of blood still rests upon his line. (2 Samuel 21, 1)
So Gad went to David with the message: Wilt thou have seven years of famine in thy country, or three months of flight from the pursuit of thy enemies, or three days in which thy country is smitten with plague? Think well, and tell me what answer I shall make to him whose word I bear thee. (2 Samuel 24, 13)
Is there famine in the land, or pestilence, blight or rust, locust or mildew? Does some enemy press hard on it, besieging our city gates? Many are the forms of plague and sickness, (1 Kings 8, 37)
So Elias went out to confront Achab. Sore famine there was in Samaria; (1 Kings 18, 2)
and Eliseus made his way to Galgal.There was once a famine in the country, at a time when Eliseus had some of the young prophets staying with him. And he bade one of his servants put on the greatest pot they had, and cook broth for these disciples of his. (2 Kings 4, 38)
And Samaria was famine-stricken; so long beleaguered, that men would pay eighty pieces of silver for an ass’s head, or five for a pint of dove’s droppings. (2 Kings 6, 25)
The king himself rose, and held a midnight council. This is the trick, said he, the Syrians are playing us; they know we are hard put to it by famine, and they think to lure us out by leaving their camp and hiding in the open country; so they hope to capture us alive, and make their way into the city. (2 Kings 7, 12)
Then, on the ninth day of the fourth month,✻ when famine had broken out in the city, and the poorer folk had nothing left to eat, (2 Kings 25, 3)
