Confirming the souls of the talmidim, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of Elohim.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have shalom. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
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 Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
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.
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.
And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Kenaan fainted by reason of the famine.
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Yosef opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.