10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
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And the famine was sore in the land.
And 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. …
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
And 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.
Then 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. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-13)Here is, I. A famine in the land of Canaan, a grievous famine . That fruitful land was turned into barrenness, not only to punish the iniquity of the Canaanites who dwelt therein, but to exercise the faith of Abram who sojourned therein; and a very sore trial it was; it tried what he would think, 1. Of God that brought him thither, whether he would not be ready to say with his murmuring seed that…
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