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 made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; 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 black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalm 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
General references
Genesis 43:1
And the famine was sore in the land.