Ruth 1:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and two sons.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to King Abimelech 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 inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma father of Bethlehem, and Hareph father of Beth-gader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

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

Psalm 105:16

When he summoned famine against the land and cut off every supply of bread,

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Jeremiah 14:1

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

Ezekiel 14:13

Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly and I stretch out my hand against it and cut off its supply of bread and send famine upon it and cut off from it humans and animals,

Ezekiel 14:21

Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!

Leviticus 26:19

I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper.

Amos 4:6

I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Micah 5:2

But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

Deuteronomy 28:38

“You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

Judges 12:8

After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Judges 17:7

Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the clan of Judah. He was a Levite residing there.

Judges 17:8

This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to live wherever he could find a place. He came to the house of Micah in the hill country of Ephraim to carry on his work.