Instances Of Famine : In Egypt

Now when Jacob saw that there was corn In Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn In Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn In Egypt.

And ye shall tell my father of all my glory In Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.

And the sons of Joseph, which were born him In Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, In Egypt:

And Joseph dwelt In Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

• Longevity

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin In Egypt.

• Oppression

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was In Egypt already.

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are In Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

• Government

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you In Egypt:

• Contracts

And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are In Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been In Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought In Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.

That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel In Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

• Government
• Lamentations
• Mourning

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry In Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt In Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

• Angel
• Cavalry
• Moses

And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves In Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we did tell thee In Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

Is not this the word that we did tell thee In Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

We remember the fish, which we did eat In Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us In Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan In Egypt.)

• Israelites

Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did In Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt In Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi In Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you In Egypt before your eyes;

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you In Egypt before your eyes?

• Israelites
• Servant

Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen In Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman In Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman In Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did In Egypt,

And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done In Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

• Sincerity

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and In Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were In Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

And when Hadad heard In Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

• Fugitives

Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was In Egypt until the death of Solomon.

And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet In Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt In Egypt;)

And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was In Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

And didst see the affliction of our fathers In Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;

How he had wrought his signs In Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

And smote all the firstborn In Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

Our fathers understood not thy wonders In Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things In Egypt;

Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there In Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Declare ye In Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

O thou daughter dwelling In Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

And they committed whoredoms In Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall In Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire In Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

And I will set fire In Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.

Thus will I execute judgments In Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

• Angel
• Angel

But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph In Egypt,

• Egyptian
• Language

Phrygia, and Pamphylia, In Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,

But when Jacob heard that there was corn In Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied In Egypt,

• Prayer
• Servant

I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is In Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures In Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.