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 leaders who delivered them from these robbers.

After him Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel.

A famine

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

There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Now the famine was severe in the land.

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

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

During David's reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, "It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites."

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command."

So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, "You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years."

He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply.

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the drought.

"Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

"But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!

General references

"In Bethlehem of Judea," they said, "for it is written this way by the prophet: