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