There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Ruth 1:1 - Y'all Version Bible In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live for a while in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition IN THE days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem of Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, his wife, and his two sons. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. Common English Bible During the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. A man with his wife and two sons went from Bethlehem of Judah to dwell in the territory of Moab. Catholic Public Domain Version In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a man from Bethlehem in Judah departed to sojourn in the region of the Moabites with his wife and two children. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons. |
There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of YHWH. YHWH said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
This is the word of YHWH that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
“Son of humanity, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal—
For Lord YHWH says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence—to cut off from it man and animal!
I will break down y’all’s powerful pride, and I will make y’all’s sky like iron and y’all’s soil like bronze.
“I also have given y’all cleanness of teeth in all y’all’s cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet y’all haven’t returned to me,” says YHWH.
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he lived there.
The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.