2 Samuel 21:1

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slew the Gabaonites.

Cross References

Genesis 26:1

And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, King of the Palestines, to Gerara.

Genesis 12:10

And there came a famine in the country. And Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there; for the famine was very grievous in the land.

Psalm 91:15

They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,

Psalm 50:15

I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee.

Job 10:2

I will say to God: Do not condemn me. Tell me why thou judgest me so.

2 Kings 8:1

And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying: Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst find. For the Lord hath called a famine, and it shall come upon the land seven years.

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeon's dung, for five pieces of silver.

1 Kings 18:2

And Elias went to shew himself to Achab: and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.

1 Kings 17:1

And Elias the Thesbite of the inhabitants of Galaad said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.

2 Samuel 5:23

And David consulted the Lord: Shall I go up against the Philistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hands? He answered: Go not up against them, but fetch a compass behind them; and thou shalt come upon them over against the pear-trees.

2 Samuel 5:19

And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up to the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said to David: Go up, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

1 Samuel 23:11

Will the men of Ceila deliver me into his hands? And will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, tell thy servant. And the Lord said: He will come down.

1 Samuel 23:4

Therefore David consulted the Lord again. And he answered and said to him: Arise, and go to Ceila: for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

1 Samuel 23:2

Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said to David: Go. And thou shalt smite the Philistines, and shalt save Ceila.

Joshua 7:1

But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took to their own use of the anathema. For Achan the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of Juda, took something of the anathema. And the Lord was angry against the children of Israel.

Numbers 27:21

If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude, shall go out and go in at his word.

Leviticus 26:26

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

Genesis 43:1

In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.

Genesis 41:57

And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.

Genesis 42:5

And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

2 Samuel 16:8

The Lord hath repaid thee for all the blood of the house of Saul: because thou hast usurped the kingdom in his stead. And the Lord hath given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thy evils press upon thee, because thou art a man of blood.

2 Samuel 20:26

And Ira the Jairite was the priest of David.

2 Samuel 21:5

And they said to the king: The man that crushed us and oppressed us unjustly, we must destroy in such manner that there be not so much as one left of his stock in all the coasts of Israel.

2 Samuel 24:1

And the anger of the Lord was again kindled against Israel, and stirred up David among them, saying: Go, number Israel and Juda.

Joshua 9:20

But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn.

Ruth 1:1

In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

1 Samuel 10:22

And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come thither. And the Lord answered: Behold, he is hidden at home.

Psalm 27:8

The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.