Ruth 1:1

Legacy Standard Bible

Now it happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was heavy in the land.

2 Samuel 21:1

And there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of Yahweh. And Yahweh said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma the father of Bethlehem and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma were Bethlehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

Psalm 105:16

¶And He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

Psalm 107:34

A fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the evil of those who inhabited it.

Jeremiah 14:1

That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in regard to the drought:

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, if a country sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it, break its staff of bread, send famine against it, and cut off from it both man and beast,

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “How much more when I send My four calamitous judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

Leviticus 26:19

I will also break down your pride of strength; I will also give your sky over to become like iron and your earth like bronze.

Amos 4:6

¶“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities And lack of bread in all your places, Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Yahweh.

Micah 5:2

“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Too little to be among the clans of Judah, From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from everlasting, From the ancient days.”

Deuteronomy 28:38

“You shall bring out much seed to the field, but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.

Judges 12:8

Then Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.

Judges 17:7

And there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was sojourning there.

Judges 17:8

Then the man went from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to sojourn wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.