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

Years later at harvest time, the boy went out one morning to join his father, who was in the field with the harvest workers.

Sojourn

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

There was another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

We have come to live in this country. The famine is so severe in the land of Canaan that there is no pasture for our flocks. Please give us permission to live in the region of Goshen.

There was a famine in the land in the days when the judges ruled. And a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

The lord

Joseph said to Pharaoh: Pharaoh had the same dream twice. God has told Pharaoh what he is going to do.

I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement.

Jehovah will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever. He will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.

Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. There was no food to be had in Samaria.

Furthermore, he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.

and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.

I brought drought on the land and its hills, grain fields, vineyards, and olive orchards. Yes drought on every crop the ground produces, on people and animals, on everything you try to grow.

There will be great earthquakes. There will be famines and pestilences in various places. There shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

One of them was named Agabus. He indicated through the Spirit that a great famine was about to come on the entire earth. He said it would come to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

Called for a famine

I am going to bring disaster on the city that is named after me. Do you think you will go unpunished? You will not go unpunished! I am declaring war on all those who live on earth,' declares Jehovah of Hosts.