KJV King James Version
And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
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2 Kings 25:3
And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
WEB World English Bible
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
ASV American Standard Version
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
on the ninth of the month—when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 25
1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.
5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
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בַּחֹדֶשׁH2320 · cho.deshmonthהָרְבִיעִיH7243 · re.vi.ifourthוַיֶּחֱזַ֥קH2388 · cha.zaqto strengthen: strengthenהָרָעָ֖בH7458 · ra.avfamineבָּעִ֑ירH5892 · irexcitementוְלֹא־H3808 · lonotהָ֥יָהH1961 · ha.yahto beלֶ֖חֶםH3899 · le.chemfoodלְעַ֥םH5971 · ampeopleהָאָֽרֶץ׃H776 · e.retsland: country/planet
Cross-references
Ezekiel 5:12A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.Ezekiel 14:21For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?Jeremiah 52:6And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.Jeremiah 38:2Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.Lamentations 4:4-10The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.Ezekiel 7:15The sword [is] without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that [is] in the field shall die with the sword; and he that [is] in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.Deuteronomy 28:52-53And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.Leviticus 26:26[And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.Ezekiel 4:9-17Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.Zechariah 8:19Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.Jeremiah 37:21Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.Jeremiah 39:2[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.Ezekiel 5:10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
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