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 have been used up by him and my bones broken.
Lamentations 4:8
Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.
Job 30:30
My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
Psalm 119:83
For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
General references
Genesis 43:1
Now the land was in bitter need of food.