Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

In Context

9And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.

11And it came to pass when Abram drew nigh to enter into Egypt, Abram said to Sarai his wife, I know that thou art a fair woman.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:56And the famine was on the face of all the earth; and Joseph opened all the granaries, and sold to all the Egyptians.

Genesis 42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy with those that came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 46:3And he says to him, I am the God of thy fathers; fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will make thee there a great nation.

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 17:1And Elijah the prophet, the Tishbite of Tishbe of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.

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.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:7-10

Abram's Devotion. ( b. c. 1921.) 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord , and called upon the… Read the whole commentary →

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