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Psalms 105:16

Psalms 105:16
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Moreover, he called for a famine upon the land,.... On the land of Egypt; or rather on the land of Canaan, where Jacob and his sons sojourned; and which reached to all lands, Gen 41:56 and calling for…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Moreover, he called for a famine upon the land - It was not by chance; not by the mere operation of physical laws, but it was because God “ordered” it. The famine here referred to, as the connection…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 105:8-24

We are here taught, in praising God, to look a great way back, and to give him the glory of what he did for his church in former ages, especially when it was in the founding and forming, which those…