Genesis 41:30

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

Seven years

Shall be

Genesis 41:21

Proverbs 31:7

Isaiah 65:16

Consume

Genesis 47:13

Psalm 105:16

General references

Genesis 41:53

Bible References

Seven years

The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

So Gad came to David, and gave him word of this and said to him, Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land? or will you go in flight from your haters for three months, while they go after you? or will you have three days of violent disease in your land? take thought and say what answer I am to give to him who sent me.

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

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.

Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.

Shall be

And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.

Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.

Consume

Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

General references

And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.