2 Kings 8:1

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Summary

Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

Whose son

2 Kings 4:18

Sojourn

The lord

Called for a famine

Jeremiah 25:29

Bible References

Whose son

After the child had grown up a bit, one day he went out to visit his father, who was with the harvesters.

Sojourn

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because the famine was so severe.

Later on, a famine swept through the land. This famine was different from the previous famine that had occurred earlier, during Abraham's lifetime. So Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

"Your servants are shepherds," they replied, "both we and our ancestors. We've come to live for a while in this region, since there is no pasture back in Canaan for your servants' flocks. May your servants please live in the Goshen territory?"

Now there came a time of famine while judges were ruling in the land of Israel. A man from Bethlehem of Judah, his wife, and his two sons left to live in the country of Moab.

The lord

"Pharaoh's dreams are identical," Joseph replied. "God has told Pharaoh what he is getting ready to do.

I'll break your mighty pride. I'll make the heavens to be like iron and the ground like bronze.

The LORD will afflict you with tuberculosis, fever, inflammation, high fever, drought, blight, and mildew. These will attack you until you are completely destroyed.

Elijah the foreigner, who was an alien resident from Gilead, told Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, in whose presence I'm standing, there will be neither dew nor rain these next several years, except when I say so."

So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab, right when the famine in Samaria was most severe.

He declared a famine on the land; destroying the entire food supply.

and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants.

I sent a drought on the land, on the mountains, on your grain, on your new wines, on your oil on everything the ground produces on men, on livestock, and on everything you do!'"

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places, and there will be fearful events and awful signs from heaven."

One of them named Agabus got up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine all over the world. This happened during the reign of Claudius.

Called for a famine

Look, I'm beginning to bring disaster on the city that is called by my name, and do you actually think you will avoid punishment? You won't avoid punishment because I'm summoning the sword against all those who live in the land," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.'"