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

Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, who delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled 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 dwell there; for the famine was grievous 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 to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.

And the famine was severe 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.

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

And Elijah the Tishbite who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD 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 to Ahab. And there was a grievous famine in Samaria.

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

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted; 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 to me, saith the LORD.

General references

And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet,