15 Bible Verses about Shortage Other Than Food

Suppose there were five less than the fifty righteous. Would you destroy the entire city for lack of five? So He (God) said: If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it.

The Benjaminites came back. And the other Israelites gave them the young women from Jabesh whom they had not killed. But there were not enough of them.

I will make mortal man harder to find than pure gold and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

When all the money in Egypt and Canaan was spent, the Egyptians came to Joseph and said: Give us food! Do not let us die. Do something! Our money is all gone.

Joseph answered: Bring your livestock. I will give you food in exchange for it if your money is all gone.

The following year they said to him: We will not hide the fact from you, Sir, that our money is all gone and our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left to give you except our bodies and our lands.

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth, with gain. This too is vanity.

The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying: Why have you given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as Jehovah has blessed us abundantly.

The children of Joseph said: The hill is not enough for us. All the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.

Benhadad sent Ahab the following message: May the gods strike me dead if there will be enough dust left from Samaria to give a handful to each soldier who follows me.

But the wise answered: 'There will not be enough for both of us. Go to the dealers and buy oil for yourself.'

Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.

When the king met the guests he found that one of them was not wearing the right kind of clothes for the wedding.

Behold, the day is coming, said the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.