Famine

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Matthew 24:7 NT

  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

• 2 Kings 4:39 OT

  One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.

• 2 Kings 4:40 OT

  So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out, and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

• 2 Kings 6:25 OT

  There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

• Lamentations 4:5 OT

  Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

• Leviticus 26:29 OT

  You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

• 2 Kings 6:28 OT

  The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

• 2 Kings 6:29 OT

  So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

• Ezekiel 4:16 OT

  Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

• Jeremiah 14:5 OT

  Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.

• Jeremiah 14:6 OT

  The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.

• Deuteronomy 32:24 OT

  They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

• Lamentations 4:8 OT

  Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

• Lamentations 5:10 OT

  Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

• Joel 1:11-13 OT

  Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished. The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple…

• Genesis 47:13 OT

  There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

• Ezekiel 4:17 OT

  that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

• 2 Kings 7:4 OT

  If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live;…

• Jeremiah 11:22 OT

  therefore Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine.

• 1 Kings 17:4 OT

  You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

• 1 Kings 17:9 OT

  “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

• Job 5:20 OT

  In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

• Psalms 33:19 OT

  to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

• Psalms 37:19 OT

  They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.