Gen 41:27, 2Sa 21:1, 24:13, Luk 4:25 | ESV | STEP | The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years , and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine .

e 1 Kgs. 17:1; 18:1; James 5:17; [Rev. 11:6]

Genesis 41:27

27 The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also ^aseven years of famine.

2 Samuel 21:1

David Avenges the Gibeonites

1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David ^bsought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 24:13

13 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall ^cthree ^{▼▼Compare 1 Chronicles 21:12, Septuagint; Hebrew seven} years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

Luke 4:25

25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when ^ethe heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,