{"id":85,"date":"2025-08-10T17:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/word\/?p=85"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T16:08:52","slug":"should-a-famine-afflict-the-country-it-is-expressed-in-the-stern-language-of-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/samuelwhitebaker\/should-a-famine-afflict-the-country-it-is-expressed-in-the-stern-language-of-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Should a famine afflict the country, it is expressed in the stern language of the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should a famine afflict the country, it is expressed in the stern language of the bible&#8211;&#8220;The Lord has sent a grievous famine upon the land;&#8221; or, &#8220;The Lord called for a famine, and it came upon the land.&#8221; Should their cattle fall sick, it is considered to be an affliction by divine command; or should the flocks prosper and multiply particularly well during one season, the prosperity is attributed to special interference. Nothing can happen in the usual routine of daily life without a direct connection with the hand of God, according to the Arab&#8217;s belief.<\/p>\n<p>This striking similarity to the descriptions of the Old Testament is exceedingly interesting to a traveller when residing among these curious and original people. With the Bible in one hand, and these unchanged tribes before the eyes, there is a thrilling illustration of the sacred record; the past becomes the present; the veil of three thousand years is raised, and the living picture is a witness to the exactness of the historical description. At the same time there is a light thrown upon many obscure passages in the Old Testament by a knowledge of the present customs and figures of speech of the Arabs, which are precisely those that were practised at the periods described. 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