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.