Genesis 12:10

A severe famine drove Abram to sojourn in Egypt. The man of promise faces a hard test of faith in the very land of blessing.

Cross-references · 19

• Gen 43:1Now the famine was still severe in the land.
• Gen 26:1–3Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
• 2 Kgs 8:1–2Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”
• Jer 14:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
• Ps 105:13they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
• John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
• Gen 42:5So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
• Gen 46:3–4“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
• Ruth 1:1In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
• Ps 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
• 2 Kgs 4:38When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
• 2 Kgs 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
• Gen 47:13There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
• 2 Kgs 7:1–8Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”
• 2 Sam 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
• Acts 7:11Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
• 1 Kgs 17:1–18Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
• Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

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