Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
Ver. 16. Moreover he called for a famine] How easy is it with God soon to starve us all by denying us a harvest or two! If he do but call for a famine it is done.
He brake the whole staff of bread] Either by withdrawing bread, that staff of man's life, or his blessing from it; for man liveth not by bread alone (or at all), but by every word, &c., Matthew 4:4, without which bread can no more nourish us than a clod of clay, In pane conclusus est quasi baculus, qui nos sustineat. See Haggai 1:6. See Trapp on " Hag 1:6 "