Ruth 1:1

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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.

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 43:1

The famine continued to be really bad in Canaan,

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.”

1 Kings 18:2

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

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph, the father of Beth Gader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

The descendants of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, half the Manahathites, the Zorites,

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 14:1

This is a message from the Lord that came to Jeremiah regarding the drought:

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, if a people in a country sin against me by being unfaithful to me, then I will act against them by cutting off their food supply, so they experience famine, with no food for people or animals.

Ezekiel 14:21

This is what the Lord God says: It will be so much worse when I send my four severe judgments against Jerusalem—war, famine, wild animals, and disease, so that both people and animals are killed!

Leviticus 26:19

I will break your self-reliant strength you're so proud of, and make your sky hard as iron and your land hard as bronze.

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.

Micah 5:2

But from you, Bethlehem Ephrathah (though you are only a small place in Judah), will come a ruler of Israel to do my will. His existence is from the ages of eternity past.

Deuteronomy 28:38

You will sow a lot of seed in the field, but harvest very little because the locusts will destroy it.

Judges 12:8

After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel as a judge.

Judges 17:7

One young man, a Levite from the tribe of Judah had been living in Bethlehem in Judah,

Judges 17:8

left Bethlehem to look for a different place to live. As he traveled through the hill country of Ephraim, he came to Micah's house.