Genesis 41:25

41:25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. ¹  God has revealed ²  to Pharaoh what he is about to do. ³ 

Genesis 41:28

41:28 This is just what I told ⁴  Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Genesis 41:32

41:32 The dream was repeated to Pharaoh ⁵  because the matter has been decreed ⁶  by God, and God will make it happen soon. ⁷ 

Leviticus 26:19-20

26:19 I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze. 26:20 Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land ⁸  will not produce their fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, ⁹  ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, ¹⁰  and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 28:22-24

28:22 He ¹¹  will afflict you with weakness, ¹²  fever, inflammation, infection, ¹³  sword, ¹⁴  blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish. 28:23 The ¹⁵  sky ¹⁶  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

The Curse of Reversed Status

28:38 “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. ¹⁷ 

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ¹⁸  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ¹⁹  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 17:1

17:1 You must not sacrifice to him ²⁰  a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive ²¹  to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 18:2

18:2 They ²²  will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; ²³  the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

Psalms 105:16

105:16 He called down a famine upon the earth;

he cut off all the food supply. ²⁴ 

Psalms 107:34

107:34 and a fruitful land into a barren place, ²⁵ 

because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Haggai 1:11

1:11 Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.’” ²⁶ 

Luke 21:11

21:11 There will be great earthquakes, and famines ²⁷  and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights ²⁸  and great signs ²⁹  from heaven.

Luke 21:22

21:22 because these are days of vengeance, ³⁰  to fulfill ³¹  all that is written.

Acts 11:28

11:28 One of them, named Agabus, got up ³²  and predicted ³³  by the Spirit that a severe ³⁴  famine ³⁵  was about to come over the whole inhabited world. ³⁶  (This ³⁷  took place during the reign of Claudius.) ³⁸ 

[41:25]  ¹ tn Heb “the dream of Pharaoh is one.”

[41:25]  ² tn Heb “declared.”

[41:25]  ³ tn The active participle here indicates what is imminent.

[41:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “it is the word that I spoke.”

[41:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “and concerning the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh two times.” The Niphal infinitive here is the object of the preposition; it is followed by the subjective genitive “of the dream.”

[41:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “established.”

[41:32]  ⁷ tn The clause combines a participle and an infinitive construct: God “is hurrying…to do it,” meaning he is going to do it soon.

[26:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “the tree of the land will not give its fruit.” The collective singular has been translated as a plural. Tg. Onq., some medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, and Tg. Ps.-J. have “the field” as in v. 4, rather than “the land.”

[26:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

[26:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”

[28:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “The Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:22]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”

[28:22]  ¹⁴ tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[28:23]  ¹⁵ tc The MT reads “Your.” The LXX reads “Heaven will be to you.”

[28:23]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “your olives will drop off” (נָשַׁל, nashal), referring to the olives dropping off before they ripen.

[28:1]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[17:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[17:1]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “an abomination”; cf. NAB) describes persons, things, or practices offensive to ritual or moral order. See M. Grisanti, NIDOTTE 4:314-18; see also the note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.

[18:2]  ²² tn Heb “he” (and throughout the verse).

[18:2]  ²³ tn Heb “brothers,” but not referring to actual siblings. Cf. NASB “their countrymen”; NRSV “the other members of the community.”

[105:16]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and every staff of food he broke.” The psalmist refers to the famine that occurred in Joseph’s time (see v. 17 and Gen 41:53-57).

[107:34]  ²⁵ tn Heb “a salty land.”

[1:11]  ²⁶ tn Heb “all the labor of hands” (similar KJV, NASB, NIV); cf. NAB “all that is produced by hand.”

[21:11]  ²⁷ sn See Isa 5:13-14; 13:6-16; Hag 2:6-7; Zech 14:4.

[21:11]  ²⁸ tn This term, φόβητρον (fobhtron), occurs only here in the NT. It could refer to an object, event, or condition that causes fear, but in the context it is linked with great signs from heaven, so the translation “sights” was preferred.

[21:11]  ²⁹ sn See Jer 4:13-22; 14:12; 21:6-7.

[21:22]  ³⁰ tn Or “of punishment.” This is a time of judgment.

[21:22]  ³¹ tn The passive construction with the infinitive πλησθῆναι (plhsqhnai) has been translated as an active construction for simplicity, in keeping with contemporary English style.

[11:28]  ³² tn Grk “getting up, predicted.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[11:28]  ³³ tn Or “made clear”; Grk “indicated beforehand” (BDAG 920 s.v. σημαίνω 2).

[11:28]  ³⁴ tn Grk “great.”

[11:28]  ³⁵ sn This famine is one of the firmly fixed dates in Acts. It took place from a.d. 45-48. The events described in chap. 11 of Acts occurred during the early part of that period.

[11:28]  ³⁶ tn Or “whole Roman Empire.” While the word οἰκουμένη (oikoumenh) does occasionally refer specifically to the Roman Empire, BDAG 699 s.v. οἰκουνένη 2 does not list this passage (only Acts 24:5 and 17:6).

[11:28]  ³⁷ tn Grk “world, which.” The relative pronoun (“which”) was replaced by the demonstrative pronoun “this” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek.

[11:28]  ³⁸ sn This is best taken as a parenthetical note by the author. Claudius was the Roman emperor Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus, known as Claudius, who ruled from a.d. 41-54.