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 hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 4:8
Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath withered -- it hath been as wood.
Job 30:30
My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,
Psalm 119:83
For I have been as a bottle in smoke, Thy statutes I have not forgotten.

General references

Genesis 43:1
And the famine is severe in the land;