Ruth 1:1

A Conservative Version

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 26:1

And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,

Judges 17:8

And the man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find [a place]. And he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

Leviticus 26:19

And I will break the pride of your power. And I will make your sky as iron, and your earth as brass,

Genesis 43:1

And the famine was severe in the land.

Amos 4:6

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places, yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

Psalm 105:16

And he called for a famine upon the land. He broke the whole staff of bread.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus says lord LORD: How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

1 Kings 18:2

And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.

Judges 12:8

And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

2 Samuel 21:1

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of LORD. And LORD said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

Judges 17:7

And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.