Ruth 1:1 Cross References - NHEB

¹ It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

¹⁰ There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine was severe in the land.

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

¹ Now the famine was severe in the land.

¹⁹ I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze;

²³ Your sky that is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be iron. ²⁴ The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

³⁸ You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

¹⁶ The LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. ¹⁷ Yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not do so. ¹⁸ When the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved the LORD because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

⁸ After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

⁸ The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

¹ It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a secondary wife from Bethlehem Judah. ² His secondary wife was angry with him and went away from him to her father's house in Bethlehem of Judah, and was there about four months.

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

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except by my word." ² And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, ³ "Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, that is near the Jordan. ⁴ And it shall be that you will drink from the wadi. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." ⁵ So he went and did according to the word of the LORD; for he went and lived by the Wadi Cherith, that is near the Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening. And he drank from the wadi. ⁷ And it happened after a while that the wadi dried up, because there was no rain in the land. ⁸ The word of the LORD came to him, saying, ⁹ "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Look, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." ¹⁰ So he got up and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, look, a widow was there gathering wood. And he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a little water in a pitcher, that I may drink." ¹¹ And as she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand." ¹² She said, "As the LORD your God lives, I do not have anything baked, except a handful of flour in a jar, and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

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

¹ Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years." ² The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.

¹⁶ He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

³⁴ and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

¹ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

¹³ "Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;

²¹ "For thus says the Lord GOD: 'How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal.

¹⁰ The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes. ¹¹ Be confounded, you farmers. Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

¹⁶ Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God? ¹⁷ The seeds shrivel under their shovels. The storehouses are laid desolate. The granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered. ¹⁸ How the animals groan. The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep suffer. ¹⁹ LORD, I cry to you, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

⁶ "I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.