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Dearth: A scarcity of provisions
(1 Kings 17:1)ff There were frequent dearths in
Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a "famine in the land"
(Genesis 12:10) so also in the days of Jacob
(Genesis 47:4,13) We read also of
dearths in the time of the judges
(Ruth 1:1) and of the kings
(2 Samuel 21:1)
(1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 4:38; 8:1) In New Testament times there was an extensive
famine in Palestine
(Acts 11:28) in the fourth year of the reign of the
emperor Claudius (A.D. 44 and 45)
