Quotes about Food
Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.
- 1 Kings 11:18
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
- 1 Kings 18:4
But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
- 1 Kings 21:7
And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.
- 2 Kings 4:40
Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
- 2 Kings 4:41
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- 2 Kings 25:3
He strengthened their fortresses and put officers in them, with supplies of food, oil, and wine.
- 2 Chronicles 11:11
Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.
- Nehemiah 5:14
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
- Nehemiah 13:2
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
- Job 3:24
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
- Job 15:23
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
- Job 20:14