2Ki 8:1 Cross References
2 Kings 8:1
1: Elisha had told the woman whose son he had brought back to life, "Take your family and move to some other place, for the LORD has called for a famine on Israel that will last for seven years."
Ruth 1:1
- In the days when the judges ruled in Israel, a man from Bethlehem in Judah left the country because of a severe famine. He took his wife and two sons and went to live in the country of Moab.
2 Kings 4:31
- Gehazi hurried on ahead and laid the staff on the child's face, but nothing happened. There was no sign of life. He returned to meet Elisha and told him, "The child is still dead."
- When Elisha arrived, the child was indeed dead, lying there on the prophet's bed.
- He went in alone and shut the door behind him and prayed to the LORD.
- Then he lay down on the child's body, placing his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on the child's eyes, and his hands on the child's hands. And the child's body began to grow warm again!
- Elisha got up and walked back and forth in the room a few times. Then he stretched himself out again on the child. This time the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes!
Haggai 1:11
- I have called for a drought on your fields and hills--a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olives and all your other crops, a drought to starve both you and your cattle and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get."
Psalms 105:16
- He called for a famine on the land of Canaan, cutting off its food supply.
2 Kings 4:18
- One day when her child was older, he went out to visit his father, who was working with the harvesters.
Genesis 12:10
- At that time there was a severe famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to wait it out.
1 Kings 18:2
- So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. Meanwhile, the famine had become very severe in Samaria.
1 Kings 17:1
- Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, "As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives--the God whom I worship and serve--there will be no dew or rain during the next few years unless I give the word!"
Genesis 41:27
- The seven thin, ugly cows and the seven withered heads of grain represent seven years of famine.
- This will happen just as I have described it, for God has shown you what he is about to do.
Luke 4:25
- "Certainly there were many widows in Israel who needed help in Elijah's time, when there was no rain for three and a half years and hunger stalked the land.
Leviticus 26:26
- I will completely destroy your food supply, so the bread from one oven will have to be stretched to feed ten families. They will ration your food by weight, and even if you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied.
Luke 21:11
- There will be great earthquakes, and there will be famines and epidemics in many lands, and there will be terrifying things and great miraculous signs in the heavens.
Genesis 41:32
- As for having the dream twice, it means that the matter has been decreed by God and that he will make these events happen soon.
Leviticus 26:19
- I will break down your arrogant spirit by making the skies above as unyielding as iron and the earth beneath as hard as bronze.
- All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.
2 Samuel 21:1
- There was a famine during David's reign that lasted for three years, so David asked the LORD about it. And the LORD said, "The famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites."
Genesis 26:1
- Now a severe famine struck the land, as had happened before in Abraham's time. So Isaac moved to Gerar, where Abimelech, king of the Philistines, lived.
Luke 21:22
- For those will be days of God's vengeance, and the prophetic words of the Scriptures will be fulfilled.
Acts 11:28
- One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings to predict by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fulfilled during the reign of Claudius.)
Jeremiah 25:29
- I have begun to punish Jerusalem, the city where my own name is honored. Now should I let you go unpunished? No, you will not escape disaster. I will call for war against all the nations of the earth. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken!'
Deuteronomy 28:38
- "You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops.
- You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines.
- You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the trees will drop the fruit before it is ripe.
Deuteronomy 28:22
- The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These devastations will pursue you until you die.
- The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.
- The LORD will turn your rain into sand and dust, and it will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.
Psalms 107:34
- He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.
2 Samuel 24:13
- So Gad came to David and asked him, "Will you choose three years of famine throughout the land, three months of fleeing from your enemies, or three days of severe plague throughout your land? Think this over and let me know what answer to give the LORD."
Genesis 47:4
- We have come to live here in Egypt, for there is no pasture for our flocks in Canaan. The famine is very severe there. We request permission to live in the land of Goshen."
Genesis 41:25
- "Both dreams mean the same thing," Joseph told Pharaoh. "God was telling you what he is about to do.