Gen 41:27, 54, 2Sa 24:13, 1Ki 17:1, 2Ki 8:1, Luk 4:25, Jam 5:17 | 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 .

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.

Genesis 41:54

54 and ^bthe seven years of famine began to come, ^cas Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

2 Samuel 24:13

13 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall ^dthree ^{▼▼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.”

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah Predicts a Drought

1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of ^fTishbe ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers} in Gilead, said to Ahab, ^h“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, ⁱbefore whom I stand, ^jthere shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

2 Kings 8:1

The Shunammite’s Land Restored

1 Now Elisha had said to the woman ^kwhose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord ^lhas called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for ^mseven years.”

Luke 4:25

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

James 5:17

17 Elijah was a man ^owith a nature like ours, and ^phe prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for ^qthree years and six months it did not rain on the earth.