Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Two years
General references
Bible References
Two years
Genesis 41:29
Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming in all the land of Egypt;
Genesis 47:18
When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent, and the cattle are my lord’s. There is nothing left for my lord except our bodies and our lands.
Earing
Genesis 47:23
Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have today bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.
Exodus 34:21
“You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.
Deuteronomy 21:4
and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
1 Samuel 8:12 He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
Isaiah 30:24
Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
General references
Acts 7:11
“Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.
Philemon 1:15
For perhaps he was for this reason separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,