2 Samuel 21:1 Cross References - MLV

¹ And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to journey there, because the famine was severe in the land.

¹ And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech King of the Philistines, to Gerar.

⁵⁷ And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe on all the earth.

¹ And the famine was severe in the land.

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your* power. And I will make your* sky as iron and your* earth as brass, ²⁰ and your* strength will be spent in vain, for your* land will not yield its increase, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

²⁶ When I break your* staff of bread, ten women will bake your* bread in one oven and they will deliver your* bread again by weight and you* will eat and not be satisfied.

²¹ And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah. At his word will they go out and at his word they will come in, both he and all the sons of Israel with him, even all the congregation.

¹ But the sons of Israel committed a trespass in what was set apart. For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took from what was set apart and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the sons of Israel.

¹¹ Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken from what was set apart and have also stolen and also dissembled. And they have even put it among their own stuff.
¹² Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies because they have become accursed. I will not be with you* any more unless you* destroy what was set apart from among you*.

¹⁷ And the king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn and kill the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.
¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, Turn and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and he fell upon the priests and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod. ¹⁹ And Nob, the city of the priests, he killed* with the edge of the sword, both men and women, sons and nursing-babes and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

² Therefore David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go and kill* these Philistines? And Jehovah said to David, Go and kill* the Philistines and save Keilah.

⁴ Then David inquired of Jehovah yet again. And Jehovah answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.

¹¹ Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Jehovah, the God of Israel, I beseech you, tell your servant. And Jehovah said, He will come down.

¹⁹ And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand? And Jehovah said to David, Go up, for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.

²³ And when David inquired of Jehovah, he said, You will not go up. Make a circuit behind them and come upon them opposite the mulberry trees.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the travelers of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

² And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.

²⁵ And there was a great famine in Samaria. And behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver and the fourth part of a two-quart container of dove's manure for five pieces of silver.

¹ Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise and go and your household and journey wherever you can journey, for Jehovah has called for a famine and it will also come upon the land seven years.

⁸ But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause, ⁹ who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number, ¹⁰ who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields,

² I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you and you will glorify me.

¹⁵ He will call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

¹ The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
² Judah mourns and the gates of it languish. They sit in black upon the ground and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. ³ And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded and cover their heads, ⁴ because of the ground which is cracked. Because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame; they cover their heads. ⁵ Yes, the female-deer also in the field calves and forsakes it because there is no grass. ⁶ And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no herbage.
⁷ Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, O Jehovah. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against you.
⁸ O you hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a traveler in the land and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to abide for a night? ⁹ Why should you be as a man frightened, as a mighty man who cannot save? Yet you, O Jehovah, are in the midst of us and we are called by your name. Do not leave us.
¹⁰ Jehovah says thus to this people: Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Jehovah does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins.
¹¹ And Jehovah said to me, Pray not for this people for good. ¹² When they fast, I will not hear their cry. And when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence.
¹³ Then I said, Ah, lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets say to them, You* will not see the sword, nor will you* have famine, but I will give you* assured peace in this place.
¹⁴ Then Jehovah said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you* a lying vision and divination and a thing of nothing and the deceit of their own heart.
¹⁵ Therefore Jehovah says thus concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name and I did not send them, yet they say, Sword and famine will not be in this land: By sword and famine those prophets will be consumed. ¹⁶ And the people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword and they will have none to bury them–them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour their wickedness upon them.
¹⁷ And you will say this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
¹⁸ If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.