2 Kings 8:1
"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."
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- Psalms 105:16
"Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread."
Read in chapter → - Ruth 1:1
"Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons."
Read in chapter → - 2 Kings 4:31
"And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked."
Read in chapter → - Haggai 1:11
"And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 2 Kings 4:18
"And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 41:27
"And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine."
Read in chapter → - Luke 4:25
"But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;"
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 18:2
"And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 17:1
"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."
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