Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of YY . And YY answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Givonites.
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Avraham. And Yitzchak went unto Abimelech king of the Plishtim unto Gerar.
Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for YY hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
And there was a great famine in Shomron: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
And Eliyah-yahu the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilad, said unto Achav, As YY Elohim of Yisrael liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
And David enquired of YY , saying, Shall I go up to the Plishtim? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And YY said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Plishtim into thine hand.
Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O YY Elohim of Yisrael, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And YY said, He will come down.
But the children of Yisrael committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Karmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Yhudah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of YY was kindled against the children of Yisrael.
And he shall stand before Eleazar the kohen, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before YY : at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Yisrael with him, even all the congregation.
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
YY hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and YY hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Avshalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Yisrael,
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of BethlehemYhudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.