Leviticus 26:26
26 aWhen I break your supply ▼▼Hebrew staff
of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and cyou shall eat and not be satisfied. Deuteronomy 28:38
38 dYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ethe locust shall consume it.1 Kings 17:1
Elijah Predicts a Drought
1Now 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.” 1 Kings 18:2
2So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.2 Kings 4:38
Elisha Purifies the Deadly Stew
38And Elisha came again to kGilgal when lthere was a famine in the land. And as mthe sons of the prophets nwere sitting before him, he said to his servant, o“Set on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”2 Kings 6:25-29
25And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab ▼ of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver. 26Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” 27And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” 28And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 qSo we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”2 Kings 8:1
The Shunammite’s Land Restored
1Now Elisha had said to the woman rwhose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord shas called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for tseven years.”Ezekiel 16:27
27Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you uand diminished your allotted portion vand delivered you to the greed of your enemies, wthe daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
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