Luke 15:14

and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

In Context

13And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

15and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into the fields to feed pigs,

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:11and YHWH brings in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur has, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with bronze chains, and cause him to go to Babylon.

Hosea 2:9Therefore I return, || And I have taken My grain in its season, || And My new wine in its appointed time, || And I have taken away My wool and My flax, covering her nakedness.

Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32

The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →

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