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Genesis 41:30

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but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.

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But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.

The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.

The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe.

Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.

There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come on you three years of famine in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years.”

He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;

Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the one true God; whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the one true God. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.

I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.

Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.




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