Famine

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Kings 17:1 OT

  Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

• Jeremiah 14:1-4 OT

  This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. “Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up. Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the…

• Amos 4:7 OT

  “I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.

• Joel 1:17 OT

  The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

• Deuteronomy 28:38 OT

  You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

• Deuteronomy 28:42 OT

  Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.

• Joel 1:4 OT

  What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

• Amos 4:9 OT

  “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Haggai 2:17 OT

  I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.

• Deuteronomy 28:33 OT

  A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,

• Deuteronomy 28:51 OT

  They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to…

• Genesis 41:27 OT

  The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

• 2 Kings 8:1 OT

  Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

• 2 Kings 8:2 OT

  The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

• Genesis 12:10 OT

  There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

• 1 Kings 18:2 OT

  Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

• Jeremiah 52:6 OT

  In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• Isaiah 3:1 OT

  For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

• Amos 4:6 OT

  “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 5:16 OT

  when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.

• Jeremiah 14:15 OT

  Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine.

• Jeremiah 29:18 OT

  I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach…

• Jeremiah 42:17 OT

  So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’

• Ezekiel 7:15 OT

  “ ‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.