Ruth 1:1

Tree of Life Version

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.

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.

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, suppose a land sins against Me by trespassing grievously and I stretch out My hand over it, break off its staff of bread, send famine upon it and cut it off from man and beast.

Judges 17:8

Then the man departed from the town, from Bethlehem of Judah, to sojourn wherever he could find a place; and as he journeyed he arrived to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.

Leviticus 26:19

I will break your pride of power. I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

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.

Psalm 105:16

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

Deuteronomy 28:38

“Much seed you will take out to the field—but little will you bring in, for the locust will eat it up.

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus Adonai says: “How much more if I send My four dreadful judgments against Jerusalem—the sword, the famine, the evil beasts and the plague—to cut man and beast off from it.

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of Adonai that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts:

Psalm 107:34

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

1 Kings 18:2

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

Judges 12:8

After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

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.”

Judges 17:7

Now there was a young man from Bethlehem of Judah—of the clan of Judah—who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Micah 5:2

Therefore He will give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth. Then the remnant of His brothers will return to Bnei-Yisrael.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma the father of Beth-lehem and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, half the Manahathites, the Zorites,