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2 Kings 8:1

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.”

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2 Kings 8:1 has 25 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ruth 1:1 (5 votes) and 2 Kings 4:31–35 (5 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 12 to Acts 11.

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Which verses does 2 Kings 8:1 point to?

The 20 strongest of 25, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Ruth 1:15 votes

    In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

  2. 2 Kings 4:31–355 votes

    Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.” When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed. …

  3. Psalm 105:165 votes

    He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.

  4. Haggai 1:115 votes

    I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

  5. Genesis 12:104 votes

    Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

  6. 2 Kings 4:184 votes

    And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.

  7. Genesis 41:27–283 votes

    Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine. It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.

  8. Leviticus 26:263 votes

    When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

  9. 1 Kings 17:13 votes

    Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

  10. 1 Kings 18:23 votes

    So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,

  11. Luke 4:253 votes
  12. Genesis 26:12 votes
  13. Genesis 41:252 votes
  14. Genesis 41:322 votes
  15. Genesis 47:42 votes
  16. Leviticus 26:19–202 votes
  17. Deuteronomy 28:22–242 votes
  18. Deuteronomy 28:38–402 votes
  19. 2 Samuel 21:12 votes
  20. 2 Samuel 24:132 votes

Which verses point to 2 Kings 8:1?

The 10 strongest of 14.