Ruth 1:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Once back in the time of the judges there was a famine in the land; so a man from Bethlehem of Judah left home with his wife and two sons to reside on the plateau of Moab.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

There was famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, since the famine in the land was severe.

Genesis 26:1

There was a famine in the land, distinct from the earlier one that had occurred in the days of Abraham, and Isaac went down to Abimelech, king of the Philistines in Gerar.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine in the land grew severe.

2 Samuel 21:1

In David’s time there was a famine for three years, year after year. David sought the presence of the Lord, who said: There is bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put the Gibeonites to death.

1 Kings 18:2

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

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph, the father of Bethgader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

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

Psalm 105:16

Then he called down a famine on the land, destroyed the grain that sustained them.

Psalm 107:34

Fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its people.

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, if a land sins against me by breaking faith, and I stretch out my hand against it, breaking its staff of bread and setting famine loose upon it, cutting off from it human being and beast alike—

Ezekiel 14:21

Thus says the Lord God: Even though I send against Jerusalem my four evil punishments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—to cut off from it human being and beast alike,

Leviticus 26:19

to break your proud strength. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze,

Amos 4:6

Though I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, and made bread scarce in all your dwellings, Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Micah 5:2

Therefore the Lord will give them up, until the time when she who is to give birth has borne, Then the rest of his kindred shall return to the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Though you take out seed to your field, you will harvest but little, for the locusts will devour it.

Judges 12:8

After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Judges 17:7

There was a young man from Bethlehem of Judah, from the clan of Judah; he was a Levite residing there.

Judges 17:8

The man set out from the city, Bethlehem of Judah, to take up residence wherever he could find a place. On his journey he came into the mountain region of Ephraim as far as the house of Micah.