2nd Kings Chapter 25 verse 3 Holy Bible
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.
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Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.
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On the ninth 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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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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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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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.
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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,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - And on the ninth day of the fourth month. The text of Kings is here incomplete, and has to be restored from Jeremiah 52:6. Our translators have supplied the missing words. The famine prevailed in the city (see the comment on ver. 2). As I have elsewhere observed, "The intensity of the suffering endured may be gathered from Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Josephus. The complexions of the men grew black with famine (Lamentations 4:8; Lamentations 5:10); their skin was shrunk and parched (Lamentations 4:8); the rich and noble women searched the dunghills for setups of offal (Lamentations 4:5); the children perished for want, or were even devoured by their parents (Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:3, 4, 10; Ezekiel 5:10); water was scarce, as well as food, and was sold at a price (Lamentations 5:4); third part of the inhabitants died of the famine, and the plague which grew out of it (Ezekiel 5:12)" (see the 'Speaker's Commentary,' vol. it. p. 147). And there was no bread for the people of the land. Bread commonly fails comparatively early in a siege. It was some time before the fall of the city that Ebed-Meleeh expressed his fear that Jeremiah would starve, since there was no more bread in the place (see Jeremiah 38:9).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) And on the ninth day of the fourth month.--The text is supplemented from Jeremiah 39:2; Jeremiah 52:6. The Syriac, however, has, "And in the eleventh year of King Zedekiah, in the fifth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine prevailed," &c.; which may be original. (Comp. 2Kings 25:1.)The famine prevailed.--Not that the scarcity was first felt on that day, but that it then had reached a climax, so that defence was no longer possible. The horrors of the siege are referred to in Lamentations 2:11 seq., Lamentations 2:19 seq., Lamentations 4:3-10; Ezekiel 5:10; Baruch 2:3. As in the famine of Samaria and the last siege of Jerusalem, parents ate their own offspring. (Comp. the prophetic threats of Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53 seq.; Jeremiah 15:2 seq., Jeremiah 27:13; Ezekiel 4:16 seq.) . . .
