2 Samuel 24:13
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13 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall (A)three[a] years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:13 Compare 1 Chronicles 21:12, Septuagint; Hebrew seven
1 Chronicles 21:12
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12 either (A)three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
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1 Kings 17:1-7
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Elijah Predicts a Drought
17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of (A)Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, (B)“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, (C)before whom I stand, (D)there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 2 And the word of the Lord came to him: 3 “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 4 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. 7 And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
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- 1 Kings 17:1 Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers
2 Samuel 21:1
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David Avenges the Gibeonites
21 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David (A)sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
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Leviticus 26:25
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25 And (A)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, (B)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
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Luke 4:25
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25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when (A)the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,
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Ezekiel 14:19-21
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19 “Or (A)if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
21 “For thus says the Lord God: How much more (B)when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, (C)sword, (D)famine, (E)wild beasts, and (F)pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
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Ezekiel 14:13
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13 (A)“Son of man, when a land sins against me (B)by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and (C)break its supply[a] of bread and send famine upon it, and (D)cut off from it man and beast,
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- Ezekiel 14:13 Hebrew staff
Deuteronomy 28:52
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52 “They shall (A)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.
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Deuteronomy 28:35
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35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs (A)with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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Deuteronomy 28:27
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27 The Lord will strike you (A)with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and (B)scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
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Deuteronomy 28:25
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25 (A)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you (B)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Deuteronomy 28:22
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22 (A)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought[a] and with (B)blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.
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- Deuteronomy 28:22 Or sword
Leviticus 26:36-37
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36 And as for those of you who are left, (A)I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The (B)sound of a (C)driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And (D)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
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Leviticus 26:20
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20 And (A)your strength shall be spent in vain, for (B)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
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Leviticus 26:16-17
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16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with (A)wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And (B)you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will (C)set my face against you, and (D)you shall be struck down before your enemies. (E)Those who hate you shall rule over you, and (F)you shall flee when none pursues you.
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Psalm 91:6
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6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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