Matthew 24:7

Nations and kingdoms will clash, with famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. It describes the troubles that mark the present age before the end.

Cross-references · 17

• Luke 21:11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
• Rev 6:8Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.
• Isa 19:2“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
• Zech 14:13On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.
• 2 Chr 15:6Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
• Acts 11:28One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
• Rev 6:12And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
• Luke 21:25–26There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
• Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
• Ezek 21:27A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’
• Zech 14:2–4For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
• Heb 12:27The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain.
• Hag 2:21–22“Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:
• Ezek 14:21For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
• Isa 24:19–23The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
• Acts 2:19I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
• Isa 9:19–21By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

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