Ruth 1:1

Elimelech Takes His Family To Live In Moab

¹ During the time of the judges, there was a famine in the land. A man left Bethlehem in Judah with his wife and two sons to live in the land of Moab for a while. ² The man’s name was Elimelech, and his wife’s name was Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They entered the land of Moab and settled there.

Certain Man

Famine in the Land

Land of Israel

Beth-lehem

Bethlehem

Canaan

Israel

Judah

Moab

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Ruth

Genesis 12:10

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.

Genesis 26:1

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.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine in the land was severe.

Judges 17:8

The man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to settle wherever he could find a place. On his way he came to Micah’s home in the hill country of Ephraim.

Psalm 105:16

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

Leviticus 26:19

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

Deuteronomy 28:23-24

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

Deuteronomy 28:38

“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Judges 2:16-18

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

Judges 12:8

Ibzan, who was from Bethlehem, judged Israel after Jephthah

Judges 19:1-2

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite living in a remote part of the hill country of Ephraim acquired a woman from Bethlehem in Judah as his concubine.

2 Samuel 21:1

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.”

1 Kings 17:1-12

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!”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.

The famine was severe in Samaria.

2 Kings 8:1-2

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.”

Psalm 107:34

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

Jeremiah 14:1

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

Ezekiel 14:13

“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,

Ezekiel 14:21

“For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send My four devastating judgments against Jerusalem—sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague—in order to wipe out both man and animal from it!

Joel 1:10-11

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

Joel 1:16-20

Hasn’t the food been cut off
before our eyes,
joy and gladness
from the house of our God?

Amos 4:6

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.