According to the rabbis, there are 10 famines named in the Hebrew Bible:
1.
Genesis
3:17 - Adam
2.
Genesis
5:29 - Lamech
3.
Genesis
12:10 - Abraham
4.
Genesis
26:1 - Isaac
5.
Genesis
41:54-57 -Jacob
6.
Ruth
1:1 - Naomi goes to Moab in the days of the Judges
7.
2
Samuel 21:1 - David (see also 2 Samuel 24:13)
8.
1
Kings 18:2- Elijah
9.
2
Kings 4:25, 6:25 - Elisha
10. Amos 8:11 - a spiritual famine which will
occur in the Messianic Age
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