Where in the bible does it say disease and starvation?

Answer 1

Most of the references to "disease and starvation" are in the book of Jeremiah, some of which are as follows (all taken from the NET Bible):-

Jer 15:2 If they ask you, 'Where should we go?' tell them the LORD says this:

"Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease.

Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war.

Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation.

Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile."

Jer 18:21 So let their children die of starvation.

Let them be cut down by the sword.

Let their wives lose their husbands and children.

Let the older men die of disease

and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

Jer 21:7 Then I, the LORD, promise that I will hand over King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and any of the people who survive the war, starvation, and disease. I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will slaughter them with the sword. He will not show them any mercy, compassion, or pity.'

Jer 24:10 I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.' "

Jer 27:8 But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the LORD, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.

(See also Jer 27:13, Jer 29:17, Jer 29:18, Jer 32:24, Jer 32:36, Jer 44:13). All this comes from God's Curses on both disobedient people and nations (eg drought):-

Deu 28:15 Curses as Reversal of Blessings

"But if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

Deu 28:16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

Deu 28:17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

Deu 28:18 Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

Deu 28:19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Deu 28:20 Curses by Disease and Drought

"The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

Deu 28:21 The LORD will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

Deu 28:22 He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

Deu 28:23 The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

Deu 28:24 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.