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
{Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised.
Lamentations 4:8
{Khet} But now their faces are very black: Insomuch, that thou shouldest not know them in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; It is withered, and become like a dry stock.
Job 30:30
My skin upon me is turned to black, and my bones are burnt with heat;
Psalm 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do not I forget thy statutes.
General references
Genesis 43:1
And the dearth waxed sore in the land.