Ruth 1:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

Genesis 26:1

Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Genesis 43:1

Now the land was in bitter need of food.

2 Samuel 21:1

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

1 Chronicles 2:51

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

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

Psalm 105:16

And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

Psalm 107:34

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

Ezekiel 14:21

For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

Leviticus 26:19

And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

Amos 4:6

But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

Micah 5:2

And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

Deuteronomy 28:38

You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

Judges 12:8

And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.

Judges 17:7

Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.

Judges 17:8

And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.