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Psalms 105:16

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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, Ge 41:56 and calling for it, it came, being a servant at the command of the Lord; see 2Ki 8:1.

He brake the whole staff of bread; so called, because it is the support of man's life, the principal of his sustenance: as a staff is a support to a feeble person, and which, when broke, ceases to be so.

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