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Famine
Sent by God - Ps 10:16
Often on account of sin - Le 26:21,26; La 4:4-6
One of God's four sore judgments - Eze 14:21
CAUSED BY
- God's blessing withheld
- Ho 2:8,9; Hag 1:6- Want of seasonable rain
- 1Ki 17:1; Jer 14:1-4; Am 4:7- Rotting of the seed in the ground
- Joe 1:17- Swarms of insects
- De 28:38,42; Joe 1:4- Blasting and mildew
- Am 4:9; Hag 2:17- Devastation by enemies
- De 28:33,51Often long continued - Ge 41:27; 2Ki 8:1,2
Often severe - Ge 12:10; 1Ki 18:2; Jer 52:6
EXPRESSED BY
- Taking away the stay of bread, &c
- Isa 3:1- Cleanness of Teeth
- Am 4:6- The arrows of famine
- Eze 5:16Often accompanied by war - Jer 14:15; 29:18
Often followed by pestilence - Jer 42:17; Eze 7:15; Mt 24:7
THINGS EATEN DURING
- Wild herbs
- 2Ki 4:39,40- Ass's flesh
- 2Ki 6:25- Dung
- 2Ki 6:25; La 4:5- Human flesh
- Le 26:29; 2Ki 6:28,29Provisions sold by weight during - Eze 4:16
Suffering of brute creation from - Jer 14:5,6
CAUSED
- Burning and fever
- De 32:24- Blackness of the skin
- La 4:8; 5:10- Grief and mourning
- Joe 1:11-13- Faintness
- Ge 47:13- Wasting of the body
- La 4:8; Eze 4:17- Death
- 2Ki 7:4; Jer 11:22God provided for his people during - 1Ki 17:4,9; Job 5:20; Ps 33:19; 37:19
INSTANCES OF, IN SCRIPTURE
- In the days of Abraham
- Ge 12:10- In the days of Isaac
- Ge 26:1- In the days of Joseph
- Ge 41:53-56- In the day of the Judges
- Ru 1:1- In the reign of David
- 2Sa 21:1- In the reign of Ahab
- 1Ki 17:1; 18:5- In the time of Elisha
- 2Ki 4:38- During the siege of Samaria
- 2Ki 6:25- Of seven years foretold by Elisha
- 2Ki 8:1- In the time of Jeremiah
- Jer 14:1- During the siege of Jerusalem
- 2Ki 25:3- After the captivity
- Ne 5:3- In the reign of Claudius Caesar
- Ac 11:28- Before destruction of Jerusalem
- Mt 24:7The Jews in their restored state not to be afflicted by - Eze 36:29,30
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- A dearth of the means of grace
- Am 8:11,12- Destruction of idols
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