Measure not God’s love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
Richard Sibbes

FAMINE

FAMINE

FAMINE

  1. Sent by God # Ps 10:16
  2. Often on account of sin # Le 26:21,26 La 4:4-6
  3. One of God’s four sore judgments # Eze 14:21
  4. CAUSED BY 4a) God’s blessing withheld

    # Ho 2:8,9 Hag 1:6

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