Luke 15:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

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  • 2 Chr 33:11 : 11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
  • Ezek 16:27 : 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
  • Hos 2:9-9 : 9 Therefore I will return, and take away my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. 10 And now I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall rescue her out of my hand. 11 I will also cause all her joy to stop, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them. 13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD. 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
  • Amos 8:9-9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight: 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day. 11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

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  • Luke 15:15-32
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    15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

    16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything.

    17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger!

    18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

    19 And am no longer worthy to be called your son: make me like one of your hired servants.

    20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

    21 And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.

    22 But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

    23 And bring the fatted calf here and kill it; and let us eat and be merry:

    24 For this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

    25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

    26 And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.

    27 And he said to him, Your brother has come; and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.

    28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore his father came out, and pleaded with him.

    29 And he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, nor have I transgressed at any time your commandment: and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends:

    30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.

    31 And he said to him, Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.

    32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad: for this your brother was dead and is alive again; and was lost and is found.

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    11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:

    12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided to them his livelihood.

    13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey to a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

  • Luke 16:1-5
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    1 And he also said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward; and he was accused to him of wasting his goods.

    2 And he called him and said to him, How is it that I hear this about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.

    3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my master is taking away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

    4 I have resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

    5 So he called every one of his master's debtors to him, and said to the first, How much do you owe my master?

  • 1 And the famine was severe in the land.

  • Luke 15:3-6
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    3 And he spoke this parable to them, saying,

    4 What man among you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

    5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

    6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

  • Gen 41:30-31
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    30 But after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will consume the land.

    31 The abundance in the land will not be known because of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.

  • 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward became hungry.

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    16 And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully.

    17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room to store my crops?

  • 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

  • 11 Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.

  • 3 For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness in former times desolate and waste.

  • 14 But those riches perish through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

  • 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in your presence? for the money fails.

  • 3 But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nurtured: it grew up with him and with his children; it ate of his own food, drank from his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.

  • 23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • 19 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day:

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    24 And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

    25 But as he was not able to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

  • 15 And it came to pass, when he returned, having received the kingdom, he then commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.

  • 16 Then he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many:

  • 11 So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • 54 And the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.