Bible Dictionary: Famine: A Dearth of the Means of Grace

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Amos 8:11,12
Behold, the days come, said the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Plenty in a Time of Dearth. Gen 41:56:00
... 8,8,8,8. Plenty in a time of dearth. Gen 41:56. ... With pleasing frames and grace received,.
With means and ordinances fed; ... But famine came and left no sign,. ...
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Olney Hymns
... Hymn 11 Plenty in a time of dearth. Gen 41:56. ... Hymn 18 A prayer for power on the
means of grace. Hymn 19 ELIJAH's mantle. ... Hymn 49 A famine of the word. ...
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Acts xi. 19
... signified by the spirit that there would be great dearth throughout the ... dwelt in
Judea." (v.29.) Mark how the famine becomes to them the means of salvation ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxv acts xi 19.htm

Book iii. --Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New ...
... 50 And in dearth's time large power of furnishing. ... To "dry" here is, of course, neuter,
and means to "wither.". ... [1514] The reference is to a famine in Elisha's ...
/.../fathers of the third century tertullian appendix/book iii of the harmony of.htm

A Treatise to Prove that no one Can Harm the Man who Does not ...
... disease, and sores, and poverty and dearth of protectors? ... means of speech, and
admonition by means of deeds ... to choose between being consumed by famine or rather ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/a treatise to prove that.htm

The Life, as Amplified by Mediaeval Biographers.
... for a week, communing with him by means of a ... and was accepted as their agent throughout
the famine season, to ... The year of dearth ended, a year of plenty ensued ...
/.../hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/iii the life as amplified by.htm

The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected by Him. ...
... a special blessing, the penury and dearth of another a ... God himself threatens living
creatures with famine, does he ... also because it is attempted, by means of an ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 16 the world created.htm

Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in ...
... but the most excellent; this being one means of forming ... and fed them in the time
of dearth, [4467] and ... He gathered together the victims of the famine with some ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xliii funeral oration on.htm

Scriptural Poems; Being Several Portions of Scripture Digested ...
... Joseph said, and there was a great dearth In every ... And now the famine still continuing
sore, And having spent ... Then Joseph, who by no means now could hide His ...
/.../scriptural poems being several portions.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... 675, to obtain the duration of the Heraclidae alone, and by this means were obtained ...
Lydia having been laid waste by a famine, the oracle declared that, before ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

Subtopics

Famine

Famine in Canaan

Famine in Egypt

Famine in Jerusalem, from Siege

Famine: A Dearth of the Means of Grace

Famine: Cannibalism In

Famine: Caused by Blasting and Mildew

Famine: Caused by Devastation by Enemies

Famine: Caused by God's Blessing Withheld

Famine: Caused by Rotting of the Seed in the Ground

Famine: Caused by Swarms of Insects