2 Kings 8:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.

¹⁰ And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

¹ Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

²⁵ Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

²⁷ The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food. ²⁸ As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do.

³² And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.

⁴ And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.

¹⁹ And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass; ²⁰ And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

²⁶ When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

²² The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete. ²³ And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron. ²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

³⁸ You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it. ³⁹ You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms. ⁴⁰ Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

¹ Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.

¹ In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

¹³ So Gad came to David, and gave him word of this and said to him, Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land? or will you go in flight from your haters for three months, while they go after you? or will you have three days of violent disease in your land? take thought and say what answer I am to give to him who sent me.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

² So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

¹⁸ Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

³¹ And Gehazi went on before them and put the stick on the child's face; but there was no voice, and no one gave attention. So he went back, and meeting him gave him the news, saying, The child is not awake. ³² And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed. ³³ So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord. ³⁴ Then he got up on the bed, stretching himself out on the child, and put his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands; and the child's body became warm. ³⁵ Then he came back, and after walking once through the house and back, he went up, stretching himself out on the child seven times; and the child's eyes became open.

¹⁶ And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

³⁴ He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

²⁹ For see, I am starting to send evil on the town which is named by my name, and are you to be without any punishment? You will not be without punishment: for I will send a sword on all people living on the earth, says the Lord of armies.

¹¹ And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.

²⁵ Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

¹¹ There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.

²² For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.

²⁸ And one of them, named Agabus, said publicly through the Spirit that there would be serious need of food all over the earth: which came about in the time of Claudius.