Judges 11:2

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

The famine was severe in the land.

A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat.

They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;

The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?