Ruth 1:1

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

In the days of one judge, when judges were sovereigns in Israel, hunger was made in the land; and a man of Bethlehem of Judah went to be a pilgrim in the country of Moab, with his wife and [his] two free sons.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Soothly hunger was made in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt, to be a pilgrim there, for hunger had the mastery in the land.

Genesis 26:1

Forsooth for hunger rose on the land, after that barrenness that befelled in the days of Abraham, Isaac went forth to Abimelech, king of Palestines, in Gerar.

Genesis 43:1

In the meantime hunger oppressed greatly all the land,

2 Samuel 21:1

And hunger was made in the land of Israel in the days of David, by three years continually. And David counselled the answer of the Lord, that is, asked counsel of the Lord in the answering place; and the Lord said, It is for Saul, and for his house, and for [the] blood, for he killed the men of Gibeon.

1 Kings 18:2

Therefore Elijah went to show him-self to Ahab; forsooth a great hunger was made in Samaria.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma, the father of Bethlehem; Hareph, the father of Bethgader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and of Netophathites, were the crowns of the house of Joab, and half of the resting of Zorites.

Psalm 105:16

And God called hunger on earth; and he wasted all the steadfastness of bread.

Psalm 107:34

He hath set fruitful land into salti-ness; for the malice of men dwelling therein.

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of the Lord, that was made to Jeremy, of the words of dryness.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when the land sinneth against me, that it trespassing do trespass, I shall stretch forth mine hand on it, and I shall all-break the staff of bread thereof; and I shall send hunger into it, and I shall slay of it man and beast.

Ezekiel 14:21

For the Lord God saith these things, That though I send in my four worst dooms, sword, and hunger, and evil beasts, and pestilence, into Jeru-salem, that I slay of it man and beast,

Leviticus 26:19

and I shall all-break the pride of your hardness, and I shall give to you heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass;

Amos 4:6

Wherefore and I gave to you astonishing [or edging] of teeth in all your cities, and neediness [or need] of loaves in all your places; and ye turned not again to me, saith the Lord.

Micah 5:2

And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, art little in the thousands of Judah; he that is the lordly governor in Israel shall go out of thee to me; and the going out of him is from [the] beginning, from days of everlastingness.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shalt cast much seed into the earth, and thou shalt gather again little; for locusts shall devour all things.

Judges 12:8

Ibzan of Bethlehem, that had thirty sons, and so many daughters, deemed Israel after Jephthah;

Judges 17:7

Also another young waxing man was of Bethlehem of Judah, of the kindred of Judah, and he was a deacon [or Levite], and dwelled there.

Judges 17:8

And he went out of the city of Bethlehem, and would be a pilgrim, wherever he found profitable to him-self. And when he made journey, and had come into the hill of Ephraim, and had bowed [down] a little into the house of Micah,