Ruth 1:1

New American Standard Bible 2020

Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to reside in the land 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 live there for a time, because 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 severe in the land.

2 Samuel 21:1

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

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present 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

And a fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Jeremiah 14:1

That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah regarding the drought:

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, if a country sins against Me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out My hand against it, destroy its supply of bread, send famine against it, and eliminate from it both human and animal life,

Ezekiel 14:21

For this is what the Lord God says: “How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, vicious animals, and plague to eliminate human and animal life from it!

Leviticus 26:19

I will also break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky 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 the Lord.

Micah 5:2

“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Too little to be among the clans of Judah, From you One will come forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His times of coming forth are from long ago, From the days of eternity.”

Deuteronomy 28:38

“You will bring out a great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locust will devour it.

Judges 12:8

Now Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.

Judges 17:7

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

Judges 17:8

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