Leviticus 26:26-29
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. 27“But dif in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28then I will walk contrary to you ein fury, and I myself will discipline you fsevenfold for your sins. 29 gYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
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 hsought 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
13So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall ithree ▼▼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
1Now Elijah the Tishbite, of kTishbe ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers
in Gilead, said to Ahab, m“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, nbefore whom I stand, othere shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 2 Kings 8:1
The Shunammite’s Land Restored
1Now Elisha had said to the woman pwhose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord qhas called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for rseven years.”Lamentations 4:9
9 Happier were the victims of the swordthan the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.
Luke 4:25
25But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when sthe heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,
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