Sent by God
  Psalm 10:16  
 Often on account of sin
  Leviticus 26:21,26; Lamentations 4:4-6  
 One of God's four sore judgments
  Ezekiel 14:21  
 CAUSED BY   God's blessing withheld
  Hosea 2:8,9; Haggai 1:6   
 Want of seasonable rain
  1 Kings 17:1; Jeremiah 14:1-4; Amos 4:7   
 Rotting of the seed in the ground
  Joel 1:17   
 Swarms of insects
  Deuteronomy 28:38,42; Joel 1:4   
 Blasting and mildew
  Amos 4:9; Haggai 2:17   
 Devastation by enemies
  Deuteronomy 28:33,51   
 Often long continued
  Genesis 41:27; 2 Kings 8:1,2  
 Often severe
  Genesis 12:10; 1 Kings 18:2; Jeremiah 52:6  
 EXPRESSED BY   Taking away the stay of bread, &c
  Isaiah 3:1   
 Cleanness of Teeth
  Amos 4:6   
 The arrows of famine
  Ezekiel 5:16   
 Often accompanied by war
  Jeremiah 14:15; 29:18  
 Often followed by pestilence
  Jeremiah 42:17; Ezekiel 7:15; Matthew 24:7  
 THINGS EATEN DURING   Wild herbs
  2 Kings 4:39,40   
 Ass's flesh
  2 Kings 6:25   
 Dung
  2 Kings 6:25; Lamentations 4:5   
 Human flesh
  Leviticus 26:29; 2 Kings 6:28,29   
 Provisions sold by weight during
  Ezekiel 4:16  
 Suffering of brute creation from
  Jeremiah 14:5,6  
 CAUSED   Burning and fever
  Deuteronomy 32:24   
 Blackness of the skin
  Lamentations 4:8; 5:10   
 Grief and mourning
  Joel 1:11-13   
 Faintness
  Genesis 47:13   
 Wasting of the body
  Lamentations 4:8; Ezekiel 4:17   
 Death
  2 Kings 7:4; Jeremiah 11:22   
 God provided for his people during
  1 Kings 17:4,9; Job 5:20; Psalm 33:19; 37:19  
 INSTANCES OF, IN SCRIPTURE   In the days of Abraham
  Genesis 12:10   
 In the days of Isaac
  Genesis 26:1   
 In the days of Joseph
  Genesis 41:53-56   
 In the day of the Judges
  Ruth 1:1   
 In the reign of David
  2 Samuel 21:1   
 In the reign of Ahab
  1 Kings 17:1; 18:5   
 In the time of Elisha
  2 Kings 4:38   
 During the siege of Samaria
  2 Kings 6:25   
 Of seven years foretold by Elisha
  2 Kings 8:1   
 In the time of Jeremiah
  Jeremiah 14:1   
 During the siege of Jerusalem
  2 Kings 25:3   
 After the captivity
  Nehemiah 5:3   
 In the reign of Claudius Caesar
  Acts 11:28   
 Before destruction of Jerusalem
  Matthew 24:7   
 The Jews in their restored state not to be afflicted by
  Ezekiel 36:29,30  
 ILLUSTRATIVE OF   A dearth of the means of grace
  Amos 8:11,12   
 Destruction of idols
  Zephaniah 2:11