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Bible Verses About Sieges: Often suffered from famine

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Verses on Often suffered from famine

  1. As the king of Isra'el was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, "Help, my lord, king!"

  2. He said, "If ADONAI isn't helping you, how do you expect me to help you? There isn't any grain, and there isn't any wine."

  3. Then the king asked her, "What's troubling you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son, so that we can eat him today; and we'll eat my son tomorrow.'

  4. So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give your son, so that we can eat him,' but she has hidden her son."

  5. On the ninth day of the [fourth] month, when the famine in the city was so severe that there was no food for the people of the land,

  6. Those far away will die from the plague, those nearby will fall by the sword, and whoever stays and is besieged will die from famine. This is how I will spend my fury on them.