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1Then 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.

2 Kings 8:1

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-6)

Here we have, I. The wickedness of Israel punished with a long famine, one of God’s sore judgments often threatened in the law. Canaan , that fruitful land, was turned into barrenness , for the iniquity of those that dwelt therein . The famine in Samaria was soon relieved by the raising of that siege, but neither that judgment nor that mercy had a due influence upon them, and therefore the Lord ca...

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