Bible Cross References
if there be dearth
2 Chronicles 20:5-13
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and they and the people of Jerusalem gathered in the new courtyard of the Temple. King Jehoshaphat went and stood before them
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and prayed aloud, "O LORD God of our ancestors, you rule in heaven over all the nations of the world. You are powerful and mighty, and no one can oppose you.
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You are our God. When your people Israel moved into this land, you drove out the people who were living here and gave the land to the descendants of Abraham, your friend, to be theirs forever.
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They have lived here and have built a temple to honor you, knowing
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that if any disaster struck them to punish them---a war, an epidemic, or a famine---then they could come and stand in front of this Temple where you are worshiped. They could pray to you in their trouble, and you would hear them and rescue them.
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"Now the people of Ammon, Moab, and Edom have attacked us. When our ancestors came out of Egypt, you did not allow them to enter those lands, so our ancestors went around them and did not destroy them.
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This is how they repay us---they come to drive us out of the land that you gave us.
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You are our God! Punish them, for we are helpless in the face of this large army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but we look to you for help."
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All the men of Judah, with their wives and children, were standing there at the Temple.
Leviticus 26:16
I will punish you. I will bring disaster on you---incurable diseases and fevers that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will plant your crops, but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have grown.
Leviticus 26:25
I will bring war on you to punish you for breaking our covenant, and if you gather in your cities for safety, I will send incurable diseases among you, and you will be forced to surrender to your enemies.
Leviticus 26:26
I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
Deuteronomy 28:21-61
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He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.
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The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
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No rain will fall, and your ground will become as hard as iron.
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Instead of rain, the LORD will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.
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"The LORD will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.
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When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.
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The LORD will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.
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The LORD will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion.
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You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.
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"You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.
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Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.
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Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.
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A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
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Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.
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The LORD will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
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"The LORD will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.
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In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.
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"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.
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You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.
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Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.
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You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
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All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.
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"Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.
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They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.
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"All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.
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They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.
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The LORD blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.
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So then, you will serve the enemies that the LORD is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked---in need of everything. The LORD will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.
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The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
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They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
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They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.
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They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
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"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
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Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
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(SEE 28:54)
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Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
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(SEE 28:56)
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"If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,
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he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
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He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
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He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.
Ruth 1:1
Long ago, in the days before Israel had a king, there was a famine in the land. So a man named Elimelech, who belonged to the clan of Ephrath and who lived in Bethlehem in Judah, went with his wife Naomi and their two sons Mahlon and Chilion to live for a while in the country of Moab. While they were living there,
1 Kings 8:37-40
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"When there is famine in the land or an epidemic or the crops are destroyed by scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when your people are attacked by their enemies, or when there is disease or sickness among them,
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listen to their prayers. If any of your people Israel, out of heartfelt sorrow, stretch out their hands in prayer toward this Temple,
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hear their prayer. Listen to them in your home in heaven, forgive them, and help them. You alone know the thoughts of the human heart. Deal with each person as he deserves,
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so that your people may obey you all the time they live in the land which you gave to our ancestors.
2 Kings 6:25-29
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As a result of the siege the food shortage in the city was so severe that a donkey's head cost eighty pieces of silver, and half a pound of dove's dung cost five pieces of silver.
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The king of Israel was walking by on the city wall when a woman cried out, "Help me, Your Majesty!"
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He replied, "If the LORD won't help you, what help can I provide? Do I have any wheat or wine?
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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.
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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 8:1
Now Elisha had told the woman who lived in Shunem, whose son he had brought back to life, that the LORD was sending a famine on the land, which would last for seven years, and that she should leave with her family and go and live somewhere else.
locusts
Exodus 10:12-15
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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Raise your hand over the land of Egypt to bring the locusts. They will come and eat everything that grows, everything that has survived the hail."
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So Moses raised his stick, and the LORD caused a wind from the east to blow on the land all that day and all that night. By morning it had brought the locusts.
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They came in swarms and settled over the whole country. It was the largest swarm of locusts that had ever been seen or that ever would be seen again.
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They covered the ground until it was black with them; they ate everything that the hail had left, including all the fruit on the trees. Not a green thing was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
Joel 1:4-7
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Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.
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Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.
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An army of locusts has attacked our land; they are powerful and too many to count; their teeth are as sharp as those of a lion.
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They have destroyed our grapevines and chewed up our fig trees. They have stripped off the bark, till the branches are white.
Joel 1:11-7
Joel 2:25
I will give you back what you lost in the years when swarms of locusts ate your crops. It was I who sent this army against you.
Revelation 9:3-11
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Locusts came down out of the smoke upon the earth, and they were given the same kind of power that scorpions have.
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They were told not to harm the grass or the trees or any other plant; they could harm only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads.
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The locusts were not allowed to kill these people, but only to torture them for five months. The pain caused by the torture is like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting.
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During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.
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The locusts looked like horses ready for battle; on their heads they had what seemed to be crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.
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Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth.
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Their chests were covered with what looked like iron breastplates, and the sound made by their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.
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They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months.
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They have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek the name is Apollyon (meaning "The Destroyer").
their enemies
2 Chronicles 12:2-5
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In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign their disloyalty to the LORD was punished. King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem
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with an army of twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand cavalry, and more soldiers than could be counted, including Libyan, Sukkite, and Ethiopian troops.
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He captured the fortified cities of Judah and advanced as far as Jerusalem.
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Shemaiah the prophet went to King Rehoboam and the Judean leaders who had gathered in Jerusalem to escape Shishak. He said to them, "This is the LORD's message to you: 'You have abandoned me, so now I have abandoned you to Shishak.' "
2 Chronicles 20:9-13
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that if any disaster struck them to punish them---a war, an epidemic, or a famine---then they could come and stand in front of this Temple where you are worshiped. They could pray to you in their trouble, and you would hear them and rescue them.
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"Now the people of Ammon, Moab, and Edom have attacked us. When our ancestors came out of Egypt, you did not allow them to enter those lands, so our ancestors went around them and did not destroy them.
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This is how they repay us---they come to drive us out of the land that you gave us.
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You are our God! Punish them, for we are helpless in the face of this large army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but we look to you for help."
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All the men of Judah, with their wives and children, were standing there at the Temple.
2 Chronicles 32:1
After these events, in which King Hezekiah served the LORD faithfully, Sennacherib, the emperor of Assyria, invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities and gave orders for his army to break their way through the walls.
Leviticus 26:25
I will bring war on you to punish you for breaking our covenant, and if you gather in your cities for safety, I will send incurable diseases among you, and you will be forced to surrender to your enemies.
Deuteronomy 28:52-57
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They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
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"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
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Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
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(SEE 28:54)
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Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
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(SEE 28:56)
whatsoever
2 Chronicles 32:24
About this time King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. He prayed, and the LORD gave him a sign that he would recover.
1 Kings 8:37
"When there is famine in the land or an epidemic or the crops are destroyed by scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when your people are attacked by their enemies, or when there is disease or sickness among them,
1 Kings 8:38
listen to their prayers. If any of your people Israel, out of heartfelt sorrow, stretch out their hands in prayer toward this Temple,
James 5:13
Are any among you in trouble? They should pray. Are any among you happy? They should sing praises.