Bible Cross References
in the land famine
Leviticus 26:16
I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause pining away of soul. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Leviticus 26:25
And I will bring a sword against you that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus 26:26-46
26
And when I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27
And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28
then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29
And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
30
And I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.
31
And I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
32
I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33
I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
34
Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35
As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
36
And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall cause them to flee; they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one is pursuing.
37
They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one is pursuing; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38
You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall consume you.
39
And those of you who are left shall rot away in their iniquity in the lands of their enemies; also in their fathers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall rot away.
40
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41
and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt;
42
then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; and I will remember the land.
43
The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall be satisfied with its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they shall accept their guilt, because they had despised My judgments and because their soul had abhorred My statutes.
44
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God.
45
But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.
46
These are the statutes and judgments and laws which Jehovah has set between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Deuteronomy 28:21
Jehovah will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land which you are going in to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:22
Jehovah will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with burning fever, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
Deuteronomy 28:25
Jehovah will cause you to be stricken before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:38-42
38
You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.
39
You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40
You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
41
You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
42
Locusts shall dispossess all your trees and the produce of your land.
Deuteronomy 28:52-61
52
They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which Jehovah your God has given to you.
53
You shall eat the fruit of your own womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom Jehovah your God has given to you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemies shall distress you.
54
The eye of the man who is tender and very delicate shall quiver with hostility toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,
55
so that he will not give to any of them the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
56
The eye of the tender and dainty woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, will quiver with hostility toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son and her daughter,
57
and toward her afterbirth which comes forth from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she shall eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
58
If you do not take heed to do all the Words of this Law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and awesome name, JEHOVAH GOD,
59
then Jehovah will bring upon you and your seed extraordinary plagues; great and long lasting plagues; and evil long lasting sicknesses.
60
Moreover He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you.
61
Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will Jehovah bring upon you to destroy you.
2 Kings 6:25-29
25
And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
26
And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king!
27
And he said, If Jehovah does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?
28
And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may 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, that we may eat him; but she hid her son.
1 Chronicles 21:12
either three years of famine, or three months of being defeated before your foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else for three days the sword of Jehovah; the plague in the land, with the Angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the territory of Israel. Now consider what word I shall return to the One sending me.
2 Chronicles 6:28-31
28
When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever the plague or whatever the sickness;
29
whatever prayer or supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows his own plague and his own grief, and has spread out his hands to this house:
30
then hear from Heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone have known the hearts of the sons of men),
31
that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways all the days they live on the face of the land which You have given to our fathers.
2 Chronicles 20:9
If evil comes upon us; sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine; we will stand before this house and before Your face (for Your name is in this house), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.
Psalm 105:34
He spoke, and locusts came, caterpillars without number,
Psalm 105:35
and ate up all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
Jeremiah 32:2
For then the army of the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem. And Jeremiah the prophet was shut in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah.
Jeremiah 39:1-3
1
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.
2
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth of the month, the city was broken into.
3
And all the rulers of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate: Nergal- sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, and all the rest of the rulers of the king of Babylon.
Ezekiel 14:21
For thus says the Lord Jehovah: How much more shall it be when I send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem; the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence; to cut off man and beast from it!
Joel 1:4-7
4
What was left by the chewing locust, the swarming locust ate; and that left by the swarming locust, the locust larvae ate; and that left by the locust larvae, the consuming locust ate.
5
Awake, you drunkards, and weep. And wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
6
For a nation has come up against my land, strong and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7
He has made My vine desolation, and he has splintered My fig tree. He has stripped it bare, and thrown it down; its branches grow white.
Joel 2:25
And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.
Joel 2:26
And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied; and you shall praise the name of Jehovah your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall never be be put to shame.