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 whole land of Egypt.
Genesis 47:18
When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.
Earing
Genesis 47:23
Joseph said to the people, "Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.
Exodus 34:21
"On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.
Deuteronomy 21:4
and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. There at the wadi they are to break the heifer's neck.
1 Samuel 8:12
He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties, as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment.
Isaiah 30:24
The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.
General references
Acts 7:11
Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.
Philemon 1:15
For perhaps it was for this reason that he was separated from you for a little while, so that you would have him back eternally,