Bible Cross References
a great famine
2 Kings 6:28
What's your trouble?" She answered, "The other day this woman here suggested that we eat my child, and then eat her child the next day.
2 Kings 6:29
So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her that we would eat her son, but she had hidden him!"
2 Kings 7:4
It's no use going into the city, because we would starve to death in there; but if we stay here, we'll die also. So let's go to the Syrian camp; the worst they can do is kill us, but maybe they will spare our lives."
2 Kings 25:3
On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
1 Kings 18:2
So Elijah started out. The famine in Samaria was at its worst,
Jeremiah 14:13-15
13
Then I said, "Sovereign LORD, you know that the prophets are telling the people that there will be no war or starvation, because you have promised, they say, that there will be only peace in our land."
14
But the LORD replied, "The prophets are telling lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I give them any orders or speak one word to them. The visions they talk about have not come from me; their predictions are worthless things that they have imagined.
15
I, the LORD, tell you what I am going to do to those prophets whom I did not send but who speak in my name and say war and starvation will not strike this land---I will kill them in war and by starvation.
Jeremiah 14:18-15
Jeremiah 32:24
"The Babylonians have built siege mounds around the city to capture it, and they are attacking. War, starvation, and disease will make the city fall into their hands. You can see that all you have said has come true.
Jeremiah 52:6
On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
an ass's head
Ezekiel 4:13-16
13
The LORD said, "This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids, when I scatter them to foreign countries."
14
But I replied, "No, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean."
15
So God said, "Very well. I will let you use cow dung instead, and you can bake your bread on that."
16
And he added, "Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.