Bible Concordances
Famine

Torrey's Topical Textbook

• Sent by God
  Psalm 10:16

• Often on account of sin
  Leviticus 26:21,26; Lamentations 4:4-6

• One of God's four sore judgments
  Ezekiel 14:21

• CAUSED BY
  • God's blessing withheld
    Hosea 2:8,9; Haggai 1:6
  • Want of seasonable rain
    1 Kings 17:1; Jeremiah 14:1-4; Amos 4:7
  • Rotting of the seed in the ground
    Joel 1:17
  • Swarms of insects
    Deuteronomy 28:38,42; Joel 1:4
  • Blasting and mildew
    Amos 4:9; Haggai 2:17
  • Devastation by enemies
    Deuteronomy 28:33,51

• Often long continued
  Genesis 41:27; 2 Kings 8:1,2

• Often severe
  Genesis 12:10; 1 Kings 18:2; Jeremiah 52:6

• EXPRESSED BY
  • Taking away the stay of bread, &c
    Isaiah 3:1
  • Cleanness of Teeth
    Amos 4:6
  • The arrows of famine
    Ezekiel 5:16

• Often accompanied by war
  Jeremiah 14:15; 29:18

• Often followed by pestilence
  Jeremiah 42:17; Ezekiel 7:15; Matthew 24:7

• THINGS EATEN DURING
  • Wild herbs
    2 Kings 4:39,40
  • Ass's flesh
    2 Kings 6:25
  • Dung
    2 Kings 6:25; Lamentations 4:5
  • Human flesh
    Leviticus 26:29; 2 Kings 6:28,29

• Provisions sold by weight during
  Ezekiel 4:16

• Suffering of brute creation from
  Jeremiah 14:5,6

• CAUSED
  • Burning and fever
    Deuteronomy 32:24
  • Blackness of the skin
    Lamentations 4:8; 5:10
  • Grief and mourning
    Joel 1:11-13
  • Faintness
    Genesis 47:13
  • Wasting of the body
    Lamentations 4:8; Ezekiel 4:17
  • Death
    2 Kings 7:4; Jeremiah 11:22

• God provided for his people during
  1 Kings 17:4,9; Job 5:20; Psalm 33:19; 37:19

• INSTANCES OF, IN SCRIPTURE
  • In the days of Abraham
    Genesis 12:10
  • In the days of Isaac
    Genesis 26:1
  • In the days of Joseph
    Genesis 41:53-56
  • In the day of the Judges
    Ruth 1:1
  • In the reign of David
    2 Samuel 21:1
  • In the reign of Ahab
    1 Kings 17:1; 18:5
  • In the time of Elisha
    2 Kings 4:38
  • During the siege of Samaria
    2 Kings 6:25
  • Of seven years foretold by Elisha
    2 Kings 8:1
  • In the time of Jeremiah
    Jeremiah 14:1
  • During the siege of Jerusalem
    2 Kings 25:3
  • After the captivity
    Nehemiah 5:3
  • In the reign of Claudius Caesar
    Acts 11:28
  • Before destruction of Jerusalem
    Matthew 24:7

• The Jews in their restored state not to be afflicted by
  Ezekiel 36:29,30

• ILLUSTRATIVE OF
  • A dearth of the means of grace
    Amos 8:11,12
  • Destruction of idols
    Zephaniah 2:11