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
Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt.
Genesis 47:18
When that year was over, they came the next year and said to him, “We cannot hide from our lord that the money is gone and that all our livestock belongs to our lord. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
Earing
Genesis 47:23
Then Joseph said to the people, “Understand today that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you. Sow it in the land.
Exodus 34:21
“You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.
Deuteronomy 21:4
The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.
1 Samuel 8:12
He can appoint them for his use as commanders of thousands or commanders of fifties, to plow his ground or reap his harvest, or to make his weapons of war or the equipment for his chariots.
Isaiah 30:24
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork.
General references
Acts 7:11
Then a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food.
Philemon 1:15
For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a brief time, so that you might get him back permanently,