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 throughout the whole land of Egypt.
Genesis 47:18
When that year ended, they came to him in the following year and said to him, "We cannot hide from my lord that [our] money and livestock belong to my lord. Nothing remains before my lord except our bodies and our land.
Earing
Genesis 47:23
And Joseph said to the people, "Look, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Here [is] seed for you so you can sow the land.
Exodus 34:21
Six days you will work, and on the seventh day you will rest; in the [time of] plowing and in the [time of] harvest you will rest.
Deuteronomy 21:4
and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a {wadi that flows with water all year} and [that] has not been plowed and has not been sown; [then] {there they shall break the neck of the heifer in the wadi}.
1 Samuel 8:12
He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and [those] {to do his plowing} and to reap his harvest, and [those] to make weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots.
Isaiah 30:24
and the oxen and the donkeys that till the ground will eat fodder, sorrel that [has] been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
General references
Acts 7:11
And a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers could not find food.
Philemon 1:15
For perhaps because of this, he was separated [from you] for a time, in order that you might have him back forever,