Ruth 1:1

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

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.

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.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it and will destroy man and beast out of it.

Judges 17:8

Now he went out from the city of Bethlehem, and desired to sojourn wheresoever he should find it convenient for him. And when he was come to mount Ephraim, as he was on his journey, and had turned aside a little into the house of Michas,

Leviticus 26:19

And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass.

Genesis 43:1

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

Amos 4:6

Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord.

Psalm 105:16

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

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword and the famine and the mischievous beasts and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast,

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias, concerning the words of the drought.

1 Kings 18:2

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

Judges 12:8

After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

2 Samuel 21:1

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.

Judges 17:7

There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.

Micah 5:2

AND THOU, BETHLEHEM Ephrata, art a little one among the thousands of Juda: out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the ruler in Israel: and his going forth is from the beginning, from the days of eternity.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hariph the father of Bethgader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and Netophathi, the crowns of the house of Joab, and half of the place of rest of Sarai.