Matthew 24:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Nation shall

Hebrews 12:27

Famines

Acts 11:28

General references

Isaiah 29:6

Luke 12:51

Bible References

Nation shall

And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.

And I will send the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they will be fighting every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; town against town, and kingdom against kingdom.

I will let it be overturned, overturned, overturned: this will not be again till he comes whose right it is; and I will give it to him.

Say to Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth,

For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible.

Famines

The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.

For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south.

There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.

And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:

And one of them, named Agabus, said publicly through the Spirit that there would be serious need of food all over the earth: which came about in the time of Claudius.

General references

The Lord of armies will come in with thunder and earth-shaking and great noise, with rushing wind and storm, and the flame of burning fire.

Is it your opinion that I have come to give peace on earth? I say to you, No, but division: