FAMINE
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Sent by God
Often on account of sin
One of God's four sore judgments
Often long continued
Often severe
Often accompanied by war
Often followed by pestilence
Provisions sold by weight during
Suffering of brute creation from
God provided for his people during
The Jews in their restored state not to be afflicted by
CAUSED BY
God's blessing withheld
Want of seasonable rain
Rotting of the seed in the ground
Swarms of insects
Blasting and mildew
Devastation by enemies
EXPRESSED BY
Taking away the stay of bread, &c
Cleanness of Teeth
The arrows of famine
THINGS EATEN DURING
Wild herbs
Ass's flesh
Dung
Human flesh
CAUSED
Burning and fever
Blackness of the skin
Grief and mourning
Faintness
Wasting of the body
Death
INSTANCES OF, IN SCRIPTURE
In the days of Abraham
In the days of Isaac
In the days of Joseph
In the day of the Judges
In the reign of David
In the reign of Ahab
In the time of Elisha
During the siege of Samaria
Of seven years foretold by Elisha
In the time of Jeremiah
During the siege of Jerusalem
After the captivity
In the reign of Claudius Caesar
Before destruction of Jerusalem
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
Pharaoh forewarned of, in dreams
Described
Sent as a judgment
Cannibalism in
Righteous delivered from
FIGURATIVE
In Canaan
In Jerusalem, from siege
In Egypt
Universal