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...