He called for, i.e. he effectually procured, as this word is used, 2 Kings 8:1 Isaiah 47:1,5 Isaiah 56:7 Romans 4:17. The whole staff of bread, i.e. bread, which is the staff or support of our animal lives. See Leviticus 26:26 Psalms 104:15 Ezekiel 4:16.
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Psalms 105:16
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.