Famine: Sent As a Judgment

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Leviticus 26:19-29
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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Deuteronomy 28:23,24,38-42
And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
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1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
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2 Kings 8:1
Then spoke Elisha to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.
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1 Chronicles 21:12
Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before your foes, while that the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise yourself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
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Psalm 105:16
Moreover he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.
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Psalm 107:33,34
He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the springs into dry ground;
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Isaiah 3:1-8
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
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Isaiah 14:30
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill your root with famine, and he shall slay your remnant.
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Jeremiah 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and narrow place, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
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Jeremiah 14:15-22
Therefore thus said the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
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Jeremiah 29:17,19
Thus said the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
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Lamentations 5:4,5,10
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
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Ezekiel 4:16,17
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
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Ezekiel 5:16,17
When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread:
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Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand on it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
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Joel 1:15,16
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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Amos 4:6-9
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have you not returned to me, said the LORD.
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Amos 5:16,17
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, said thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.
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Haggai 1:10,11
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
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Matthew 24:7
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
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Luke 21:11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
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Revelation 6:5-8
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and see a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
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Library

After Having Written About virgins, it Seemed Needful to Say ...
... he asserts not so much as the result of his own judgment, as of ... at that time when
the whole human race was afflicted by famine and Elias was sent to the ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter i after having written.htm

The Removal of Joseph's Father with all his Family, to Him, on ...
... my kindness it was that, when thou wast sent into Mesopotamia ... 7. However, the famine
increased among the Egyptians, and this heavy judgment grew more ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 7 the removal of.htm

The Apostle of the Gentiles.
... the disciples; there, too, on the occasion of a famine in Judea ... server put them aside,
and neither released him nor sent him to Rome for judgment, but on ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xxii the apostle of.htm

The Last Judgment. By the Rev. John Welch, AD 1570-1622.
... Mark next, suppose the sword, the famine, the pestilence, these ... shout, "Rise, dead,
and come to judgment," the Bridegroom ... judge you; and I am here sent of God ...
/.../knox/the pulpit of the reformation nos 1 2 and 3 /the last judgment by the.htm

Elijah the Tishbite
... more dreadful than all the multiplied horrors of famine. ... God had sent messengers
to Israel, with appeals ... living God, Elijah's message of judgment would never ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 9 elijah the tishbite.htm

An Exposition of the Chapters of the Acts of the Apostles.
... of what had taken place, and their judgment on the ... Q. The prophecy of Agabus respecting
the famine in the world, [1374] and the liberal relief sent to the ...
/.../pamphilus/the writings of pamphilus/an exposition of the chapters.htm

Elisha's Closing Ministry
... Judgment upon judgment had befallen the Israelites during the ... they had eaten and
drunk, he sent them away ... The horrors of prolonged famine were driving the king ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 21 elishas closing ministry.htm

That when David had Numbered the People, they were Punished; and ...
... that in case he should ask for famine, he would ... hand over Jerusalem, as sending this
terrible judgment upon it ... caused the pestilence to cease, and sent Gad the ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 13 that when david.htm

Acts xi. 19
... As each had the ability, they sent." But now ... as the abundance is twofold: a severe
famine, a famine not of ... that they are naked: speak to them of judgment to come ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxv acts xi 19.htm

The Last Agony
... Jerusalem fell not by assault, but by famine. ... that 'the history of the world is the
judgment of the world ... at the middle gate of Jerusalem that sent the German ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the last agony.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