Today's Favorite Verse: 2 Samuel 21:1

Today's Favorite Verse: 2 Samuel 21:1

"Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites."

I wonder if David used the ephod or Urim and Thummim to inquire of the Lord? It's interesting how many times in the scriptures that famine lasts three or three and a half years, and if really bad seven years. Famine is used to bring people to remembrance of the Lord, and a voice of warning to repent.

"O Lord, do not suffer that this people shall be destroyed by the sword; but O Lord, rather let there be a famine in the land, to stir them up in remembrance of the Lord their God, and perhaps they will repent and turn unto thee."

(Helaman 11:4)

"How oft have I called upon you by the mouth of my servants, and by the ministering of angels, and by mine own voice, and by the voice of thunderings, and by the voice of lightnings, and by the voice of tempests, and by the voice of earthquakes, and great hailstorms, and by the voice of famines and pestilences of every kind, and by the great sound of a trump, and by the voice of judgment, and by the voice of mercy all the day long, and by the voice of glory and honor and the riches of eternal life, and would have saved you with an everlasting salvation, but ye would not!"

(Doctrine and Covenants 43:25)

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