2 Kings 8:1

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Elisha told the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family need to pack up and leave, and live where you can somewhere else like a foreigner. For the Lord announced a famine will come to the land and will last seven years.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

But the land had been hit by famine. So Abram continued on to Egypt, planning to live there because the famine was so bad.

Genesis 26:1

There was a famine in the country—not the one that happened before in Abraham's time, but a later one. So Isaac moved to Gerar in the territory of Abimelech, king of the Philistines.

Genesis 41:25

“Pharaoh's dreams mean the same thing,” Joseph responded. “God is telling Pharaoh what he is going to do.

Genesis 41:32

The fact that the dream was repeated twice means that it has definitely been decided by God, and that God is going to do this soon.

Genesis 41:54

and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other countries but the whole of Egypt had food.

Genesis 47:4

“We have come to live in Egypt because there's no grass left in Canaan for our flocks to eat,” they explained. “The famine is really bad in Canaan. So we would like to please ask permission to live in Goshen.”

2 Samuel 21:1

Once during David's reign there was a famine for three years in a row, and David asked the Lord about it. The Lord replied, “It's because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.”

2 Samuel 24:13

So Gad went and told David, “You can choose three years of famine in your land, or three months of running from your enemies while they chase you, or three days of plague in your land. So think about it and decide how I should reply to the One who sent me.”

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite (from Tishbe in Gilead), told Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, the one I serve, in the years to come there will not be any dew or rain unless I say so!”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. In the meantime the famine had become severe in Samaria.

2 Kings 4:18

The child grew up, but one day when he went out to see his father who was with the reapers,

2 Kings 4:36

Elisha called Gehazi and said, “Ask the Shunammite woman to come.” So he did. When she arrived, Elisha said to her, “Here's your son. You can pick him up.”

2 Kings 4:38

When Elisha went back to Gilgal, there was a famine in that area. The sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, and he said to his servant, “Use the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”

2 Kings 7:20

This is what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway and he died.

2 Kings 8:2

The woman packed up and did what the man of God had told her. She and her family went and lived as foreigners for seven years in the country of the Philistines.

Psalm 105:16

He caused a famine in the Land of Canaan so that there was no food.

Psalm 107:34

Fruitful ground becomes a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those living there.

Jeremiah 25:29

Can't you see that I'm about to bring disaster down on my own city, so do you really think you wouldn't be punished as well? You won't go unpunished, for I am bringing war to everyone on earth, declares the Lord Almighty.

Leviticus 26:26

I will send a famine so bread is in short supply. One oven will serve the needs of ten women baking bread. It will be distributed by weight so that you'll eat but won't have enough.

Amos 4:6

It was I who made sure you had nothing to eat in all your cities, and a lack of food wherever you lived, but still you wouldn't return to me, says the Lord.

Haggai 1:11

I called for a drought on the land, on the hills, on the grain fields, on the vineyards, and on the olive groves—on whatever the earth produces—and on people and livestock, on everything you do!

Luke 21:11

“There will be severe earthquakes, famines, and epidemic diseases in many lands, and extraordinary signs in the sky that are terrifying.

Luke 21:22

For these are days of punishment, fulfilling all that's written.

Luke 4:25

I guarantee that there were many widows in Israel during the time of Elijah when there was a drought for three and a half years, causing a great famine throughout the country.

Acts 11:28

One of them called Agabus stood up and gave a prophetic warning by the Spirit that there would be a terrible famine that would affect the known world. (This came true in the reign of Emperor Claudius.)

Ruth 1:1

There was a famine during the time when the judges ruled Israel, so a man left Bethlehem in Judah and went to live in exile in the country of Moab, along with his wife and two sons.