Amos 4:6
And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.
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Leviticus 26:26When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Ruth 1:1And it came to pass when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land: and a man went from Bethlehem Judah to sojourn in the land of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
1 Kings 18:2And Elijah went to appear before Ahab: and the famine was severe in Samaria.
2 Kings 6:25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was valued at fifty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung at five pieces of silver.
2 Chronicles 28:22but only troubled him in his affliction: and he departed yet more from the Lord, and King Ahaz said,
Isaiah 9:12But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Amos 4:2-6
Threatenings against Oppressors; Punishment of Proud Oppressors. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into… Read the whole commentary →