Genesis 41:30

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

but that will be followed by seven years when there won't be enough. The good years of plenty will be forgotten, and everywhere in Egypt people will be starving.

Cross References

Genesis 41:21

But you couldn't tell it, because these skinny cows were just as skinny as they were before. Straight away, I woke up.

Genesis 41:27

The seven skinny, ugly cows that came up later also stand for seven years, as do the seven bad heads of grain that were scorched by the east wind. The dreams mean there will be seven years when there won't be enough grain.

Genesis 41:31

The famine will be so bad that no one will remember that once there had been plenty.

Genesis 41:51

Their first son was named Manasseh, which means, “God has let me forget all my troubles and my family back home.”

Genesis 41:54

and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was not enough food in other countries, but all over Egypt there was plenty.

Genesis 41:56

The famine became bad everywhere in Egypt, so Joseph opened the storehouses and sold the grain to the Egyptians.

Genesis 47:13

The famine was bad everywhere in Egypt and Canaan, and the people were suffering terribly.

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah was a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead. One day he went to King Ahab and said, “I'm a servant of the living LORD, the God of Israel. And I swear in his name that it won't rain until I say so. There won't even be any dew on the ground.”

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha told the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “The LORD has warned that there will be no food here for seven years. Take your family and go and live somewhere else for a while.”

Psalm 105:16

God kept crops from growing until food was scarce everywhere in the land.

Proverbs 31:7

Let them drink and forget how poor and miserable they feel.

Isaiah 65:16

I am God! I can be trusted. Your past troubles are gone; I no longer think of them. When you pray for someone to receive a blessing, or when you make a promise, you must do it in my name. I alone am the God who can be trusted.

Luke 4:25

Once during the time of Elijah there was no rain for three and a half years, and people everywhere were starving. There were many widows in Israel,

James 5:17

Elijah was just as human as we are, and for three and a half years his prayers kept the rain from falling.