Ruth 1:1

New Century Version

Long ago when the judges ruled Israel, there was a shortage of food in the land.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

At this time there was not much food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because there was so little food.

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a time of hunger in the land, besides the time of hunger that happened during Abraham’s life. So Isaac went to the town of Gerar to see Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Genesis 43:1

Still no food grew in the land of Canaan.

2 Samuel 21:1

During the time David was king, there was a shortage of food that lasted for three years. So David prayed to the Lord. The Lord answered, “Saul and his family of murderers are the reason for this shortage, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to meet Ahab. By this time there was no food in Samaria.

1 Chronicles 2:54

Salma’s descendants were Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, half the Manahathites, and the Zorites.

Psalm 105:16

God ordered a time of hunger in the land, and he destroyed all the food.

Psalm 107:34

He made fertile land salty, because the people there did evil.

Jeremiah 14:1

These are the words that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the time when there was no rain:

Ezekiel 14:13

“Human, if the people of a country sin against me by not being loyal, I will use my power against them. I will cut off their supply of food and send a time of hunger, destroying both people and animals.

Ezekiel 14:21

“This is what the Lord God says: My plans for Jerusalem are much worse! I will send my four terrible punishments against it—war, hunger, wild animals, and disease—to destroy its people and animals.

Leviticus 26:19

I will break your great pride, and I will make the sky like iron and the earth like bronze.

Amos 4:6

“I did not give you any food in your cities, and there was not enough to eat in any of your towns, but you did not come back to me,” says the Lord.

Micah 5:2

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are too small to be among the army groups from Judah, from you will come one who will rule Israel for me. He comes from very old times, from days long ago.”

Deuteronomy 28:38

You will plant much seed in your field, but your harvest will be small, because locusts will eat the crop.

Judges 12:8

After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem was a judge for Israel.

Judges 17:7

There was a young man who was a Levite from the city of Bethlehem in Judah who was from the people of Judah.

Judges 17:8

He left Bethlehem to look for another place to live, and on his way he came to Micah’s house in the mountains of Ephraim.