Ruth 1:1

Elimelech Takes His Family To Live In Moab

¹ Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons. ² The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they entered the land of Moab and remained 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

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Judges 17:8

Then the man departed from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.

Psalm 105:16

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

Leviticus 26:19

I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.

Deuteronomy 28:23-24

The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.

Deuteronomy 28:38

“You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.

Judges 2:16-18

Then the Lord raised up judges who delivered them from the hands of those who plundered them.

Judges 12:8

Now Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.

Judges 19:1-2

Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.

2 Samuel 21:1

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

1 Kings 17:1-12

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

2 Kings 8:1-2

Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go with your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn; for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will even come on the land for seven years.”

Psalm 107:34

A fruitful land into a salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Jeremiah 14:1

That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah in regard to the drought:

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, if a country sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it, destroy its supply of bread, send famine against it and cut off from it both man and beast,

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus says the Lord God, “How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

Joel 1:10-11

The field is ruined,
The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil fails.

Joel 1:16-20

Has not food been cut off before our eyes,
Gladness and joy from the house of our God?

Amos 4:6

“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.