2 Kings 8:1

Tree of Life Version

Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life saying, “Arise and go with your household, and stay wherever you can stay, because Adonai has called for a famine—indeed it has already come—on the land for seven years.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live as an outsider there, because the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land—aside from the previous famine that happened in Abraham’s days. So Isaac went to King Abimelech of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Genesis 41:25

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dream is one. God has told Pharaoh what He is about to do.

Genesis 41:32

“Now as for repeating Pharaoh’s dream twice: it’s because the matter has been settled by God and God will quickly make it happen.

Genesis 41:54

and the seven years of famine started to come—just as Joseph had said. So there was famine in all the lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was bread.

Genesis 47:4

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We came to dwell temporarily in the land, since there is no pasture for the flocks that belong to your servants, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year, so David sought the face of Adonai. Adonai replied, “It is because of Saul and his bloody house, for he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 24:13

So Gad came to David and told him, saying to him, “Shall seven years of famine come on you in your land? Or will you flee from your adversary for three months while he is pursuing you? Or shall there be three days of pestilence in your land? Now consider and see what answer I should return to Him who sent me.”

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab: “As Adonai God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew or rain these years, except at my word.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

2 Kings 4:18

Now when the child was grown, one day he went out to his father among the reapers.

2 Kings 4:36

He then called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” So he called her. When she came in to him, he said, “Pick up your son.”

2 Kings 4:38

Afterward Elisha returned to Gilgal. Now there was famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

2 Kings 7:20

That’s what happened to him—for the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died.

2 Kings 8:2

So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and stayed in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

Psalm 105:16

He called down a famine on the land. He broke the whole supply of bread.

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.

Jeremiah 25:29

See, I am beginning to bring evil on the city where My name is called, and should you go completely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Amos 4:6

“So also, I myself have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places— yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Adonai.

Haggai 1:11

For I have called for drought on the land, the hills and the grain, on the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on mankind and beast, as well as all labor of hands.”

Luke 21:11

There will be great earthquakes along with famines and epidemics in various places, and there will be terrors along with great signs from heaven.

Luke 21:22

For these are the days of punishment, to fulfill all that has been written.

Luke 4:25

But with all truthfulness I say to you, that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven was closed for three and a half years and there came a great famine over all the land.

Acts 11:28

One of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted through the Ruach that there was going to be a great famine over all the world. (This took place during the reign of Claudius.)

Ruth 1:1

It came to pass in the days when judges were governing, there was a famine in the land. A man went from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to dwell in the region of Moab with his wife and his two sons.