Bible Concordances
Famine

Torrey's Topical Textbook

  

  • Sent by God

      Psalm 10:16

  • Often on account of sin

      Leviticus 26:21,26; Lamentations 4:4-6

  • One of God's four sore judgments

      Ezekiel 14:21

  • CAUSED BY
  • God's blessing withheld

      Hosea 2:8,9; Haggai 1:6

  • Want of seasonable rain

      1 Kings 17:1; Jeremiah 14:1-4; Amos 4:7

  • Rotting of the seed in the ground

      Joel 1:17

  • Swarms of insects

      Deuteronomy 28:38,42; Joel 1:4

  • Blasting and mildew

      Amos 4:9; Haggai 2:17

  • Devastation by enemies

      Deuteronomy 28:33,51

  • Often long continued

      Genesis 41:27; 2 Kings 8:1,2

  • Often severe

      Genesis 12:10; 1 Kings 18:2; Jeremiah 52:6

  • EXPRESSED BY
  • Taking away the stay of bread, &c

      Isaiah 3:1

  • Cleanness of Teeth

      Amos 4:6

  • The arrows of famine

      Ezekiel 5:16

  • Often accompanied by war

      Jeremiah 14:15; 29:18

  • Often followed by pestilence

      Jeremiah 42:17; Ezekiel 7:15; Matthew 24:7

  • THINGS EATEN DURING
  • Wild herbs

      2 Kings 4:39,40

  • Ass's flesh

      2 Kings 6:25

  • Dung

      2 Kings 6:25; Lamentations 4:5

  • Human flesh

      Leviticus 26:29; 2 Kings 6:28,29

  • Provisions sold by weight during

      Ezekiel 4:16

  • Suffering of brute creation from

      Jeremiah 14:5,6

  • CAUSED
  • Burning and fever

      Deuteronomy 32:24

  • Blackness of the skin

      Lamentations 4:8; 5:10

  • Grief and mourning

      Joel 1:11-13

  • Faintness

      Genesis 47:13

  • Wasting of the body

      Lamentations 4:8; Ezekiel 4:17

  • Death

      2 Kings 7:4; Jeremiah 11:22

  • God provided for his people during

      1 Kings 17:4,9; Job 5:20; Psalm 33:19; 37:19

  • INSTANCES OF, IN SCRIPTURE
  • In the days of Abraham

      Genesis 12:10

  • In the days of Isaac

      Genesis 26:1

  • In the days of Joseph

      Genesis 41:53-56

  • In the day of the Judges

      Ruth 1:1

  • In the reign of David

      2 Samuel 21:1

  • In the reign of Ahab

      1 Kings 17:1; 18:5

  • In the time of Elisha

      2 Kings 4:38

  • During the siege of Samaria

      2 Kings 6:25

  • Of seven years foretold by Elisha

      2 Kings 8:1

  • In the time of Jeremiah

      Jeremiah 14:1

  • During the siege of Jerusalem

      2 Kings 25:3

  • After the captivity

      Nehemiah 5:3

  • In the reign of Claudius Caesar

      Acts 11:28

  • Before destruction of Jerusalem

      Matthew 24:7

  • The Jews in their restored state not to be afflicted by

      Ezekiel 36:29,30

  • ILLUSTRATIVE OF
  • A dearth of the means of grace

      Amos 8:11,12

  • Destruction of idols

      Zephaniah 2:11

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