5 Bible Verses about Famine, Examples Of

Now a famine came over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, attended with great misery, so that our ancestors could not find provender.

I tell you for a fact, In Israel there were many widows during the days of Elijah, when the sky was closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land:

one of whom, named Agabus, showed by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to visit the whole world (the famine which occurred in the reign of Claudius).

For nation will rise against nation, and realm against realm; there will be famines and earthquakes here and there.

Now a famine came over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, attended with great misery, so that our ancestors could not find provender. But, hearing there was food in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors on their first visit to that country; at their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh was informed of Joseph's lineage.