Acts 11:28 Cross References - Thomson

²⁸ And one of them named Agabus rising up signified by the spirit that there would very soon be a great famine throughout the whole inhabited land, which accordingly came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

³⁰ But after these there will come seven years of famine. And they will cause the coming plenty to be forgotten in all Egypt. And the famine will consume the land, ³¹ so that the plenty will not be known in the land, by reason of the famine which will come after it: for it will be very great.

³⁸ And Pharao said to all his servants, Can we find such a man as this who hath in him the spirit of God?

¹ And the prophet Elias the Thesbite, who was of Thesbon in Galaad, said to Achab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain for years but by the word of my mouth. ² Then a word of the Lord came to Elias, ³ Go hence eastward and hide thyself by the brook Chorrath which is before the Jordan; ⁴ and thou shalt have water from the brook to drink and I will command the ravens to feed thee there. ⁵ So Elias did according to the word of the Lord, and took up his abode by the brook Chorrath, fronting the Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread in the morning and flesh in the evening, and he drank water from the brook. ⁷ And when he had been there a year, the brook dried up; for there was no rain in the land. ⁸ Thereupon a word of the Lord came to Elias, ⁹ Arise and go to Sarepta of Sidonia. Behold I have ordered a widow woman there to sustain thee. ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Sarepta, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold there was there a widow woman gathering sticks. And Elias cried after her, and said to her, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water that I may drink. ¹¹ And as she was going to fetch it, Elias called after her and said, Bring me I pray thee a morsel of bread in thy hand. ¹² Whereupon the woman said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake baked and only about a handful of barley meal in the jar and a little oil in the vessel; and behold I was picking up a few sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my children, that we may eat and die. ¹³ And Elias said to her, Take courage, go in and do as thou hast said, but make for me a little cake of it, and bring it out first to me, and afterwards thou shalt make for thyself and thy children. ¹⁴ For thus saith the Lord, The jar of meal shall not fail, nor shall the vessel of oil diminish, until the Lord shall send rain on the land. ¹⁵ So the woman went and did so. And though she and her children ate ¹⁶ yet the jar of meal did not fail, nor was two oil in the vessel diminished, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by Elias.

¹ Elisha having spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise and go thou and thy family and sojourn where thou canst; for the Lord hath called for a famine against this land, and it is come upon the land for seven years; ² the woman arose and did according to the word of Elisha, and both she and her family sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

¹⁴ The good news of the kingdom shall indeed be proclaimed throughout the whole world for a testimony to all the nations. And then will come the end.

¹ Now it happened in those days, that an edict came forth from Caesar Augustus, that this whole inhabited land should be enrolled.

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea; and Herod, tetrarch of Galilee; and his brother Philip, tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis; and Lysanias, being tetrarch of Abilene

² where finding a certain Jew, named Aquilas, a native of Pontus, who had lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart out of Rome, he went to them;

¹⁰ And after we had been there several days, there came down from Judea a prophet named Agabus,