Ruth 1:1

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Summary

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

The judges

Judges 2:16

Judges 12:8

A famine

General references

Matthew 2:5

Bible References

The judges

And Jehovah raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that despoiled them.

And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

A famine

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.

And the famine was sore in the land.

And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;

And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

Now Elisha had spoken unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for Jehovah hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.

A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast;

The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

General references

And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written through the prophet,