2 Kings 6:25
Now there was a great famine in Samaria; and they
Leviticus 26:26
When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied.
1 Kings 18:2
So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
2 Kings 6:28-29
And the king said to her, “What is the matter with you?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
2 Kings 7:4
If we say, ‘We will enter the city’—then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit still here, we will also die. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans (Syrians). If they let us live, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”
2 Kings 25:3
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine [caused by the siege] was severe in the city; there was no food for the people of the land.
Jeremiah 14:13-15
But I said, “Alas, Lord God! Behold, the [false] prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I [the Lord] will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
Jeremiah 14:18
‘If I go out into the field,
Then I gaze on those slaughtered with the sword!
And if I enter the city,
Then I gaze on [those tormented with] the diseases of famine!
For both prophet and priest [who should have guided the people]
Go about [bewildered and exiled] in a land (Babylon) that they do not know or understand.’”
Jeremiah 32:24
See the siege ramps [of mounded earth that the enemy has built against the walls]; they have come up to the city to capture it. And the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans [of Babylon] who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine and the virulent disease [that have overcome the people]. What You have spoken has come to pass, and behold, You see it.
Jeremiah 52:6
In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Ezekiel 4:13-16
Then the Lord said, “Thus the children of Israel will eat their bread unclean and defiled among the nations where I will banish them.”