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 43:1And the famine was sore in the land.
• Gen 26:1–3And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
• 2 Kgs 8:1–2Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
• Jer 14:1The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
• Ps 105:13When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
• John 16:33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
• Gen 42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
• Gen 46:3–4And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
• Ruth 1:1Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
• Ps 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
• 2 Kgs 4:38And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
• 2 Kgs 6:25And 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.
• Gen 47:13And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
• 2 Kgs 7:1–8Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
• 2 Sam 21:1Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
• Acts 7:11Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
• 1 Kgs 17:1–18And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
• Acts 14:22Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

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