Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

General references

Bible References

The evil

Deuteronomy 32:23

‘I will heap misfortunes on them;
I will use My arrows on them.
Psalm 7:13

He has also prepared [other] deadly weapons for Himself;
He makes His arrows fiery shafts [aimed at the unrepentant].
Psalm 91:5

You will not be afraid of the terror of night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
Lamentations 3:12

He has bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.

And will

Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the staff of bread [that supports life] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread [rationed] by weight and [eat it] with anxiety and fear, and drink water by measure and [drink it] in horror [of the impending starvation],
Ezekiel 14:13
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it and destroy its source of bread and send famine on it and cut off from it both man and animal,
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.
2 Kings 6:25
Now there was a great famine in Samaria; and they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
Isaiah 3:1
Listen carefully, the Lord God of hosts is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah
Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread
And the whole supply of water;

General references

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.
Jeremiah 24:10
I will send the sword, famine and virulent disease among them until they are consumed from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.’”