15 Bible Verses about Shortage Other Than Food

Most Relevant Verses

Genesis 18:28

Perhaps there will be five lacking from the fifty righteous. Will You destroy all the city for lack of five? And He said, If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it.

Judges 21:14

And Benjamin came again at that time. And they gave them wives whom they had saved alive, of the women of Jabesh-gilead. And yet so they were not enough for them.

Isaiah 13:12

I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the fine gold of Ophir.

Genesis 21:15

And the water was gone in the bottle, and she cast the boy under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 47:15

And when silver failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the silver has failed.

Genesis 47:16

And Joseph said, Give your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle, if silver has failed.

Genesis 47:18

When that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said, We will not hide it from my lord, that our silver has failed, also our herds of cattle, going to my lord. Nothing is left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands.

Joshua 17:14

The sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua saying, Why have you given me one lot and one portion to inherit, since I am a great people, because Jehovah has blessed me until now?

Joshua 17:16

And the sons of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us. And all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, those who are of Beth-shean and its towns, and those who are of the valley of Jezreel.

1 Kings 20:10

And Ben-hadad sent to him and said, May the gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.

Matthew 25:9

But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there be not enough for us and you. But rather go to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.

Isaiah 40:16

And Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor the beasts of it enough for a burnt offering.

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah.

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