Bible Dictionary: Famine: Instances of, in Scripture: During the Siege of Samaria

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Kings 6:25
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
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Works and Letters of St. Ambrose
... It is proved by the witness of Scripture that all ... never be expelled the city in a
time of famine.� ... Ambrose shows by instances that the places in which those ...
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In the House of his Heavenly, and in the Home of his Earthly ...
... that when, in the straits of famine during the siege ... Jewish tradition gives other
instances of precocious and ... of the Messianic bearing of all Scripture to its ...
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Letter Liii. To Paulinus.
... holy eunuch (or rather "man" for so the scripture calls him ... 6. These instances have
been just touched upon by me ... a famine upon the earth "not a famine of bread ...
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Letter cxxiii. To Ageruchia.
... together in marriage; in the words of scripture "the twain ... [3282] If these instances
are to ... And those which the sword spares without, famine ravages within. ...
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Questions.
... What was Simon's work with regard to the Holy Scripture? 15. ... 22. How had the dreadful
famine been foretold?"Luke, xix.43. ... 5. What were the instances of St. ...
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