THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE - Chapter 15 - Verse 14

Verse 14. A mighty famine. Famines were common in Eastern nations. They were caused by the failure of the crops -- by a want of timely rains, a genial sun, or sometimes by the prevalence of the plague or of the pestilence, which swept off numbers of the inhabitants. In this case it is very naturally connected with the luxury, the indolence, and the dissipation of the people in that land.

{h} "mighty famine" Am 8:11,12