2 Kings 25:3
“And on the ninth day of the fourth moneth, the famine preuailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.”
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2 Kings 25:3 Context
1And it came to passe in the ninth yeere of his reigne, in the tenth moneth, in the tenth day of the moneth, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, hee, and all his hoste, against Ierusalem, and pitched against it, and they built fortes against it, round about. 2And the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yeere of king Zedekiah. 3And on the ninth day of the fourth moneth, the famine preuailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 4¶ And the citie was broken vp, and all the men of warre fled by night, by the way of the gate, betweene two walles, which is by the kings garden, (now the Caldees were against the citie round about) and the King went the way toward the plaine. 5And the army of the Caldees pursued after the King, and ouertooke him in the plaines of Iericho: and all his armie were scattered from him.
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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.
- King James Version
On the ninth day of the {fourth} month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
- New American Standard Version (1995)