2 Kings 8:1

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Now Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had caused to live, saying: "Rise up. Go, you and your household, and sojourn in whatever place you can find. For the Lord has called forth a famine, and it shall overwhelm the land for seven years."

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.

Genesis 26:1

Then, when a famine arose over the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestinians, in Gerar.

Genesis 41:25

Joseph responded: "The dream of the king is one. What God will do, he has revealed to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:32

Now, as to what you saw the second time, it is a dream pertaining to the same thing. It is an indication of its firmness, because the word of God shall be done, and it shall be completed swiftly.

Genesis 41:54

the seven years of destitution, which Joseph had predicted, began to arrive. And the famine prevailed throughout the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 47:4

We came to sojourn in your land, because there is no grass for the flocks of your servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Canaan. And we petition you that you may order us, your servants, to be in the land of Goshen."

2 Samuel 21:1

And a famine occurred, during the days of David, for three years continuously. And David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: "This is because of Saul, and his house of bloodshed. For he killed the Gibeonites."

2 Samuel 24:13

And when Gad had gone to David, he announced it to him, saying: "Either seven years of famine will come to you in your land; or you will flee for three months from your adversaries, and they will pursue you; or there will be a pestilence in your land for three days. Now then, deliberate, and see what word I may respond to him who sent me."

1 Kings 17:1

And Elijah the Tishbite, from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord lives, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew or rain during these years, except by the words of my mouth."

1 Kings 18:2

Therefore, Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. For there was a severe famine in Samaria.

2 Kings 4:18

And the boy grew. And on a certain day, when he had gone out to his father, to the harvesters,

2 Kings 4:36

And he called Gehazi, and said to him, "Call this Shunammite woman." And having been called, she entered to him. And he said, "Take up your son."

2 Kings 4:38

And Elisha returned to Gilgal. Now there was a famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets were living in his sight. And he said to one of his servants, "Set out a large cooking pot, and boil a soup for the sons of the prophets."

2 Kings 7:20

Therefore, it happened to him just as it had been predicted. For the people trampled him at the gate, and he died.

2 Kings 8:2

And she rose up, and she acted in accord with the word of the man of God. And going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Psalm 105:16

And they provoked Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.

Jeremiah 25:29

For behold, I am beginning to afflict the city in which my name has been invoked, and will you be innocent and immune? You will not be immune! For I will call the sword over all the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord of hosts.

Leviticus 26:26

After this, I will have broken the staff of your bread, so that ten women bake bread in one oven, and distribute it by weight. And you shall eat and not be filled.

Amos 4:6

Therefore, because of this, I have given you dull teeth in every one of your cities, and a lack of bread in all your places. And you have not been turned back towards me, says the Lord.

Haggai 1:11

And I called a drought over the land, and over the mountains, and over the wheat, and over the wine, and over the oil, and whatever the soil would bring forth, and over men, and over beasts of burden, and over all the labor of hands.

Luke 21:11

And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there will be great signs.

Luke 21:22

For these are the days of retribution, so that all things may be fulfilled, which have been written.

Luke 4:25

In truth, I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine had occurred throughout the entire land.

Acts 11:28

And one of them, named Agabus, rising up, signified through the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over the entire world, which did happen under Claudius.

Ruth 1:1

In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a man from Bethlehem in Judah departed to sojourn in the region of the Moabites with his wife and two children.