Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

General references

Bible References

Skin

Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is darker than blackness, they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Job 30:30
My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Psalm 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; I do not forget thy statutes.

General references

Genesis 43:1
And the famine was grievous in the land.