Bible Cross References
if there be dearth
2 Chronicles 20:5-13
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And Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah in Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, in front of the new court.
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And he said, O Lord God of my fathers, are not You God in heaven above, and are not You Lord of all the kingdoms of the nations? And [is there] not in Your hand the might of dominion, and there is no one who can resist You?
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Are not You the Lord that destroyed the inhabitants of this land before the face of Your people Israel, and gave it to Your beloved seed of Abraham forever?
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And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to Your name, saying,
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If there should come upon us evils, sword, judgment, pestilence, [or] famine, we will stand before this house, and before You, (for Your name [is] upon this house) and we will cry to You because of the affliction, and You shall hear, and deliver.
10
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, with regard to whom You did not permit Israel to pass through their border, when they had come out of the land of Egypt, (for they turned away from them, and did not destroy them)-
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yet now, behold, they make attempts against us, to come forth to cast us out from our inheritance which You have given to us.
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O Lord our God, will You not judge them? For we have no strength to resist this great multitude that has come against us; and we know not what we shall do to them, but our eyes are toward You.
13
And all Judah was standing before the Lord, and their children, and their wives.
Leviticus 26:16
then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and [disease] that consumes your life; and you shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.
Leviticus 26:25
And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of [My] covenant, and you shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
Leviticus 26:26
When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 28:21-61
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The Lord shall cause the pestilence to cleave to you, until He has consumed you off the land into which you go to inherit it.
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The Lord smite you with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue you until they have destroyed you.
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And you shall have over your head a sky of brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.
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The Lord your God shall make the rain of your land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it has destroyed you, and until it has quickly consumed you.
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The Lord shall give you up for slaughter before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and you shall be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.
27
The Lord shall smite you with the botch of Egypt in the seat, and with a malignant scab, and itch, so that you can not be healed.
28
The Lord shall smite you with insanity, and blindness, and astonishment of mind.
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And you shall grope at midday, as a blind man gropes in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.
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You shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it.
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Your calf [shall be] slain before you, and you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from you, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no helper.
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Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes, wasting away, shall look for them; your hand shall have no strength.
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A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be perpetually injured and crushed.
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And you shall be distracted, because of the sights of your eyes which you shall see.
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The Lord shall smite you with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so that you shall not be able to be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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The Lord shall carry away you and your princes, whom you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers know; and there shall you serve other gods, [of] wood and stone.
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And there shall you be a wonder and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord your God shall carry you away.
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You shall carry forth much seed into the field, and you shall bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.
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You shall plant a vineyard, and dress it, and shall not drink the wine, neither shall you delight yourself with it, because the worm shall devour it.
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You shall have olive trees in all your borders, and you shall not anoint you with oil, because your olive shall utterly cast [its fruit].
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You shall beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be [yours], for they shall depart into captivity.
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All your trees and the fruits of your land shall the blight consume.
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The stranger that is within you shall be lifted up, and you shall be brought down very low.
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He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
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And all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and shall overtake you, until He has consumed you, and until He has destroyed you, because you did not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commands and His statutes which He has commanded you.
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And [these things] shall be signs for you, and wonders among your seed forever;
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because you did not serve the Lord your God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things.
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And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the desire of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until He has destroyed you.
49
The Lord shall bring upon you a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice you shall not understand;
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a nation bold in countenance, which shall not respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young.
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And it shall eat up the young of your livestock, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you grain, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it has destroyed you;
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and has utterly crushed you in your cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed in which you trusted, in all your land; and it shall afflict you in your cities, which He has given to you.
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And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, all that He has given you, in your desperate straits and your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you.
54
He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him;
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so as [not] to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemies shall afflict you in all your cities.
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And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not ventured to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,
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and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the needs of all things, secretly in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities.
58
If you will not hearken to do all the words of this law, which have been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful name, THE LORD YOUR GOD;
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then shall the Lord magnify your plagues, and the plagues of your seed, great and wonderful plagues, and evil and abiding diseases.
60
And He shall bring upon you all the evil pain of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you.
61
And the Lord shall bring upon you every sickness, and every plague that is not written, and everyone that is written in the book of this law, until He has destroyed you.
Ruth 1:1
And it came to pass [in the days] when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a man went from Bethlehem, Judah to sojourn in the land of Moab- he, his wife, and his two sons.
1 Kings 8:37-40
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If there should be famine, if there should be death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew, and if their enemy oppress them in one of their cities, [with regard to] every calamity, every trouble,
38
every prayer, every supplication whatever shall be made by any man, as they shall know each the plague of his heart, and shall spread abroad his hands to this house,
39
then shall You hearken from heaven, out of Your established dwelling place, and shall be merciful, and shall do, and recompense to [every] man according to his ways, as You shall know his heart, for You alone know the heart of all the children of men;
40
that they may fear You all the days that they live upon the land, which You has given to our fathers.
2 Kings 6:25-29
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And there was a great famine in Samaria. And behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was [valued] at fifty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung at five pieces of silver.
26
And the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, and a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
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And he said to her, Unless the Lord help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?
28
And the king said to her, What is [the matter] with you? And the woman said to him, This [woman] said to me, Give your son, and we will eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
29
So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, Give your son, and let us eat him; but she has hidden her son.
2 Kings 8:1
And Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he [had] restored to life, saying, Arise and go, you and your household, and sojourn wherever you may sojourn; for the Lord has called for a famine upon the land; indeed it will come upon the land [for] seven years.
locusts
Exodus 10:12-15
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And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, and let the locust come up on the land, and it shall devour every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail left.
13
And Moses lifted up his rod towards heaven, and the Lord brought a south wind upon the earth, all that day and all that night. The morning dawned, and the south wind brought up the locusts,
14
and brought them up over all the land of Egypt. And they rested in very great abundance over all the borders of Egypt. Before them there were not such locusts, neither after them shall there be.
15
And they covered the face of the earth, and the land was wasted, and they devoured every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which was left by the hail: there was no green thing left on the trees, nor on all the herbs of the field, in all the land of Egypt.
Joel 1:4-7
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The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
5
Awake, you drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all you that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness are removed from your mouth.
6
For a strong and innumerable nation has come up against My land, their teeth are [like] lion's teeth, and their back teeth [as] those of a [lion's] whelp.
7
He has ruined My vine, and utterly broken My fig trees: he has utterly searched [My vine], and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.
Joel 1:11-7
Joel 2:25
And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even My great army, which I sent against you.
Revelation 9:3-11
3
Then out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth. And power was given to them, as scorpions of the earth have power.
4
They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, nor any plant, nor any tree, but [only] those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5
And they were not given authority to kill them, but that they should torment them for five months. And their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
6
And in those days men shall seek death, and shall by no means find it; they shall be longing to die, yet death shall elude them.
7
And the appearances of the locusts [was] similar to horses having been prepared for battle, and on their heads [were] like crowns of gold, and their faces [were] like the faces of men.
8
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.
9
And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots with many horses rushing into battle.
10
And they had tails like scorpions, and stings. And in their tails they have power to harm men five months,
11
having as a king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
their enemies
2 Chronicles 12:2-5
2
And it came to pass in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had sinned against the Lord,
3
with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horses. And there was no number of the multitude that came with him from Egypt: Libyans, [the] Sukkiim, and [the] Ethiopians.
4
And they obtained possession of the strong cities, which were in Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
5
And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah that were gathered to Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says the Lord: You have left Me, and I will leave you in the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 20:9-13
9
If there should come upon us evils, sword, judgment, pestilence, [or] famine, we will stand before this house, and before You, (for Your name [is] upon this house) and we will cry to You because of the affliction, and You shall hear, and deliver.
10
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, with regard to whom You did not permit Israel to pass through their border, when they had come out of the land of Egypt, (for they turned away from them, and did not destroy them)-
11
yet now, behold, they make attempts against us, to come forth to cast us out from our inheritance which You have given to us.
12
O Lord our God, will You not judge them? For we have no strength to resist this great multitude that has come against us; and we know not what we shall do to them, but our eyes are toward You.
13
And all Judah was standing before the Lord, and their children, and their wives.
2 Chronicles 32:1
And after these things and this faithful dealing, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came to Judah, and he encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to take them for himself.
Leviticus 26:25
And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of [My] covenant, and you shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
Deuteronomy 28:52-57
52
and has utterly crushed you in your cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed in which you trusted, in all your land; and it shall afflict you in your cities, which He has given to you.
53
And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, all that He has given you, in your desperate straits and your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you.
54
He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him;
55
so as [not] to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemies shall afflict you in all your cities.
56
And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not ventured to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,
57
and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the needs of all things, secretly in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities.
whatsoever
2 Chronicles 32:24
In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death, and he prayed to the Lord. And He hearkened to him, and gave him a sign.
1 Kings 8:37
If there should be famine, if there should be death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew, and if their enemy oppress them in one of their cities, [with regard to] every calamity, every trouble,
1 Kings 8:38
every prayer, every supplication whatever shall be made by any man, as they shall know each the plague of his heart, and shall spread abroad his hands to this house,
James 5:13
Does anyone among you suffer misfortune? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praises.