Discovery Box2 Kings 8:1
Context8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, 1 for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
Leviticus 26:26
Context26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, 2 ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, 3 and you will eat and not be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 28:22-24
Context28:22 He 4 will afflict you with weakness, 5 fever, inflammation, infection, 6 sword, 7 blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish. 28:23 The 8 sky 9 above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. 28:24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:38-40
Context28:38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. 28:39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them. 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe. 10
Deuteronomy 28:2
Context28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance 11 if you obey the Lord your God:
Deuteronomy 21:1
Context21:1 If a homicide victim 12 should be found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you, 13 and no one knows who killed 14 him,
Jeremiah 14:1-6
Context14:1 The Lord spoke to Jeremiah 16 about the drought. 17
14:2 “The people of Judah are in mourning.
The people in her cities are pining away.
They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. 18
Cries of distress come up to me 19 from Jerusalem. 20
14:3 The leading men of the cities send their servants for water.
They go to the cisterns, 21 but they do not find any water there.
They return with their containers 22 empty.
Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands. 23
14:4 They are dismayed because the ground is cracked 24
because there has been no rain in the land.
The farmers, too, are dismayed
and bury their faces in their hands.
14:5 Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn 25 in the field
because there is no grass.
14:6 Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops
and pant for breath like jackals.
Their eyes are strained looking for food,
because there is none to be found.” 26
Ezekiel 14:13
Context14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, 27 cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
Luke 4:25
Context4:25 But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, 28 when the sky 29 was shut up three and a half years, and 30 there was a great famine over all the land.
[8:1] 1 tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”
[26:26] 2 tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).
[26:26] 3 tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”
[28:22] 4 tn Heb “The
[28:22] 5 tn Or perhaps “consumption” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. NAB “wasting”; NIV, NLT “wasting disease”).
[28:22] 6 tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”
[28:22] 7 tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).
[28:23] 8 tc The MT reads “Your.” The LXX reads “Heaven will be to you.”
[28:23] 9 tn Or “heavens” (also in the following verse). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
[28:40] 10 tn Heb “your olives will drop off” (נָשַׁל, nashal), referring to the olives dropping off before they ripen.
[28:2] 11 tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”
[21:1] 12 tn Heb “slain [one].” The term חָלָל (khalal) suggests something other than a natural death (cf. Num 19:16; 23:24; Jer 51:52; Ezek 26:15; 30:24; 31:17-18).
[21:1] 13 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it,” but this has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[21:1] 14 tn Heb “struck,” but in context a fatal blow is meant; cf. NLT “who committed the murder.”
[14:1] 15 sn The form of Jer 14:1–15:9 is very striking rhetorically. It consists essentially of laments and responses to them. However, what makes it so striking is its deviation from normal form (cf. 2 Chr 20:5-17 for what would normally be expected). The descriptions of the lamentable situation come from the mouth of God not the people (cf.14:1-6, 17-18). The prophet utters the petitions with statements of trust (14:7-9, 19-22) and the
[14:1] 16 tn Heb “That which came [as] the word of the
[14:1] 17 sn Drought was one of the punishments for failure to adhere to the terms of their covenant with God. See Deut 28:22-24; Lev 26:18-20.
[14:2] 18 tn Heb “Judah mourns, its gates pine away, they are in mourning on the ground.” There are several figures of speech involved here. The basic figure is that of personification where Judah and it cities are said to be in mourning. However, in the third line the figure is a little hard to sustain because “they” are in mourning on the ground. That presses the imagination of most moderns a little too far. Hence the personification has been interpreted “people of” throughout. The term “gates” here is used as part for whole for the “cities” themselves as in several other passages in the OT (cf. BDB 1045 s.v. שַׁעַר 2.b, c and see, e.g., Isa 14:31).
[14:2] 19 tn The words “to me” are not in the text. They are implicit from the fact that the
[14:2] 20 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[14:3] 21 tn Though the concept of “cisterns” is probably not familiar to some readers, it would be a mistake to translate this word as “well.” Wells have continual sources of water. Cisterns were pits dug in the ground and lined with plaster to hold rain water. The drought had exhausted all the water in the cisterns.
[14:3] 22 tn The word “containers” is a generic word in Hebrew = “vessels.” It would probably in this case involve water “jars” or “jugs.” But since in contemporary English one would normally associate those terms with smaller vessels, “containers” may be safer.
[14:3] 23 tn Heb “they cover their heads.” Some of the English versions have gone wrong here because of the “normal” use of the words translated here “disappointed” and “dismayed.” They are regularly translated “ashamed” and “disgraced, humiliated, dismayed” elsewhere (see e.g., Jer 22:22); they are somewhat synonymous terms which are often parallel or combined. The key here, however, is the expression “they cover their heads” which is used in 2 Sam 15:30 for the expression of grief. Moreover, the word translated here “disappointed” (בּוֹשׁ, bosh) is used that way several times. See for example Jer 12:13 and consult examples in BDB 101 s.v. בּוֹשׁ Qal.2. A very similar context with the same figure is found in Jer 2:36-37.
[14:4] 24 tn For the use of the verb “is cracked” here see BDB 369 s.v. חָתַת Qal.1 and compare the usage in Jer 51:56 where it refers to broken bows. The form is a relative clause without relative pronoun (cf., GKC 486-87 §155.f). The sentence as a whole is related to the preceding through a particle meaning “because of” or “on account of.” Hence the subject and verb have been repeated to make the connection.
[14:5] 25 tn Heb “she gives birth and abandons.”
[14:6] 26 tn Heb “their eyes are strained because there is no verdure.”
[14:13] 27 tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”
[4:25] 28 sn Elijah’s days. Jesus, by discussing Elijah and Elisha, pictures one of the lowest periods in Israel’s history. These examples, along with v. 24, also show that Jesus is making prophetic claims as well as messianic ones. See 1 Kgs 17-18.
[4:25] 29 tn Or “the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. Since the context here refers to a drought (which produced the famine), “sky” is preferable.
[4:25] 30 tn Grk “as.” The particle ὡς can also function temporally (see BDAG 1105-6 s.v. 8).
