Ruth 1:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

The Lord raised up judges, who saved them from the power of their marauders,

Ibzan, who was from Bethlehem, judged Israel after Jephthah

A famine

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.

There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Now the famine in the land was severe.

I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired of the Lord. The Lord answered, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family when he killed the Gibeonites.”

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers,

said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!”

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.

The famine was severe in Samaria.

Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get ready, you and your household, and go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the Lord has announced a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”

He called down famine against the land
and destroyed the entire food supply.

and fruitful land into salty wasteland,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of bread, to send famine through it, and to wipe out both man and animal from it,

The fields are destroyed;
the land grieves;
indeed, the grain is destroyed;
the new wine is dried up;
and the olive oil fails.

I gave you absolutely nothing to eat

in all your cities,
a shortage of food in all your communities,
yet you did not return to Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

General references

“In Bethlehem of Judea,” they told him, “because this is what was written by the prophet: