Ruth 1:1

Modern King James Version

And it happened in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to stay there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

Genesis 26:1

And there was a famine in the land, besides the famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.

Genesis 43:1

And the famine was severe in the land.

2 Samuel 21:1

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year. And David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah answered, For Saul, and for his bloody house, because he killed the Gibeonites.

1 Kings 18:2

And Elijah went to be seen himself to Ahab. And there was a great famine in Samaria.

1 Chronicles 2:51

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

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half the Manahethites, the Zorites.

Psalm 105:16

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

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Jeremiah 14:1

The Word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the matter of droughts.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when a land sins against Me by traitorous betraying, then I will stretch out My hand on it, and will break the staff of its bread, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast from it.

Ezekiel 14:21

For so says the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send My four evil judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the destroying beast, and the plague, to cut off man and beast from it.

Leviticus 26:19

And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven like iron and your earth like bronze.

Amos 4:6

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, and you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.

Micah 5:2

And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, you being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me, to become Ruler in Israel, He whose goings forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity.

Deuteronomy 28:38

You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall eat it.

Judges 12:8

And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Judges 17:7

And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah of the family of Judah, and he was a Levite. And he stayed there.

Judges 17:8

And the man went out of the city from Bethlehem-judah to live where he could find a place. And he came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.