Now the famine was severe in the land. ¹ 

So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. ¹ 

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God – harshness toward those who have fallen, but ¹  God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; ²  otherwise you also will be cut off.

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt ¹  to stay for a while ²  because the famine was severe. ³ 

The Lord severely ¹  punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.

The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered ¹  because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe. ² 

Then ¹  after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

After several years ¹  I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor ²  and to present offerings, ³ 

People from every country ¹  came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each ¹  of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. ²  So the land became Pharaoh’s.

He must bring them to the priest and present first the one that is for a sin offering. The priest ¹  must pinch ²  its head at the nape of its neck, but must not sever the head from the body. ³ 

Severe discipline ¹  is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof ²  will die.

and after taking some food, his strength returned. For several days ¹  he was with the disciples in Damascus,

While the famine was over all the earth, ¹  Joseph opened the storehouses ²  and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away ¹  because of the famine.

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ¹  the archers ²  spotted him and wounded him severely.

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as temporary residents ¹  in the land. There ²  is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. ¹  Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors. ²