Ruth 1:1

New International Version

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

2 Samuel 21:1

During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is 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 descendants of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, half the Manahathites, the Zorites,

Psalm 105:16

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

Psalm 107:34

and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Jeremiah 14:1

This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning 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 to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its people and their animals,

Ezekiel 14:21

“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments—sword and famine and wild beasts and plague—to kill its men and their animals!

Leviticus 26:19

I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.

Amos 4:6

“I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

Micah 5:2

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”

Deuteronomy 28:38

You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Judges 12:8

After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel.

Judges 17:7

A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah,

Judges 17:8

left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.