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, there shall come seven years of great plenteousness throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 47:18
When that year was ended, they came unto him the next year and said unto him, "We will not hide it from my lord, how that we have neither money nor cattle for my lord: there is no more left for my lord, but even our bodies and our lands.
Earing
Genesis 47:23
Then Joseph said unto the folk, "Behold, I have bought you this day and your lands for Pharaoh. Take there seed and go sow the land.
Exodus 34:21
"Six days thou shalt work, and the seventh thou shalt rest: both from earing and reaping.
Deuteronomy 21:4
and let them bring her unto a valley where is neither earing nor sowing, and strike off her head there in the valley.
1 Samuel 8:12
and will make him captains of them over thousands and over fifties, and set them to ear his ground, and to gather in his harvest, and to make instruments of war and apparel for his chariots.
Isaiah 30:24
yea, thine oxen and Mules that till the ground, shall eat good fodder which is purged with the fan.
General references
Acts 7:11
Then came there a dearth over all the land of Egypt, and Canaan, and great affliction, that our fathers found no sustenance.
Philemon 1:15
Haply he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever,