Ruth 1:1

Christian Standard Bible

During the time  of the judges,  there was a famine in the land.  A man left Bethlehem  in Judah with his wife and two sons to stay in the territory of Moab for a while.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

There was a famine in the land,  so Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.

Genesis 26:1

There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time.  And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, suppose a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its supply of bread,  to send famine through it, and to wipe out both people and animals from it.

Judges 17:8

The man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wherever he could find a place. On his way he came to Micah’s home in the hill country of Ephraim.

Leviticus 26:19

I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine in the land was severe.

Amos 4:6

I gave you absolutely nothing to eat  , in all your cities, a shortage of food in all your communities, yet you did not return to me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Deuteronomy 28:38

“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Ezekiel 14:21

“For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send my four  devastating judgments against Jerusalem #— #sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague #— #in order to wipe out both people and animals from it!

Jeremiah 14:1

This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

Judges 12:8

Ibzan, who was from Bethlehem,  judged Israel after Jephthah

2 Samuel 21:1

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired  of the Lord. The Lord answered, “It is due to Saul and to his bloody family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

Judges 17:7

There was a young man, a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who was staying within the clan of Judah.

Micah 5:2

Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are small among the clans of Judah; one will come from you to be ruler over Israel for me. His origin  is from antiquity, from ancient times.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma fathered Bethlehem, and Hareph fathered Beth-gader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

Salma’s descendants: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites,