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
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.
Job 30:30
My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Psalm 119:83
For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes.
General references
Genesis 43:1
And the famine was severe in the land.