Leviticus 26:20
20And ayour strength shall be spent in vain, for byour land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.2 Samuel 21:1
David Avenges the Gibeonites
1Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David csought 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.”1 Kings 17:1-7
Elijah Predicts a Drought
1Now Elijah the Tishbite, of dTishbe ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers
in Gilead, said to Ahab, f“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, gbefore whom I stand, hthere shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 2And the word of the Lord came to him: 3“Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 4You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 5So he went and did according to the word of the Lord. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. 6And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. 7And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 1 Chronicles 21:12
12either ithree years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”Ezekiel 14:13
13 j“Son of man, when a land sins against me kby acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and lbreak its supply ▼▼Hebrew staff
of bread and send famine upon it, and ncut off from it man and beast, Ezekiel 14:21
21“For thus says the Lord God: How much more owhen I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, psword, qfamine, rwild beasts, and spestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!Luke 4:25
25But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when tthe heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,
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