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Famine

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Famine in the Bible Dictionary

  1. Pharaoh forewarned of, in dreams Gen 41
  2. Described Deut 28:53–57; Isa 5:13; 9:18–21; 17:11; Jer 5:17; 14:1–6; 48:33; Lam 1:11, 19; 2:11–22; 4:4–10; Joel 1:17–20
  3. Sent as a judgment Lev 26:19–29; Deut 28:23, 24, 38–42; 1 Kgs 17:1; 2 Kgs 8:1; 1 Chr 21:12; Ps 105:16; 107:33, 34; Isa 3:1–8; 14:30; Jer 19:9; 14:15–22; 29:17, 19; Lam 5:4, 5, 10; Ezek 4:16, 17; 5:16, 17; 14:13; Joel 1:15, 16; Amos 4:6–9; 5:16, 17; Hag 1:10, 11; Matt 24:7; Luke 21:11; Rev 6:5–8
  4. Cannibalism in Deut 28:53; 2 Kgs 6:28
  5. Righteous delivered from Job 5:20; Ps 33:19; 37:19
  6. Figurative Amos 8:11
  7. Instances of
  8. In Canaan Gen 12:10; 26:1; 2 Sam 21:1; 1 Kgs 17; 18:1; 2 Kgs 6:25–29; 7:4
  9. In Jerusalem, from siege 2 Kgs 25:3; Jer 52:6
  10. In Egypt Gen 41:53–57
  11. Universal Acts 11:28

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.