Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
The ninth day
The famine
There was no
General references
Bible References
The ninth day
Jeremiah 39:2
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on [the] ninth [day] of the month, the city was taken by assault.
Jeremiah 52:6
In the fourth month, on [the] ninth [day] of the month, the famine in the city became severe and there was no food for the people of the land.
Zechariah 8:19
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'The fast of the fourth [month], the fifth [month], the seventh [month], and the tenth [month] will be for the house of Judah jubilation and joy and merry festivals; therefore love truth and peace.'
The famine
Leviticus 26:26
At my breaking [the] {supply} of bread for you, then ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat [it], and you shall not be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 28:52
And it shall besiege you in all your towns {until your high and fortified walls fall}, which you [are] trusting in {throughout your land}; and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you.
Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg [for] food, {no one lays it out before them}.
Ezekiel 4:9
"And you, take for yourself wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourself into a food [during] the number of days that you [are] lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it.
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore parents will eat children in the midst of you, and children will eat their parents, and I will execute judgment in you, and I will scatter your entire remnant to every wind.
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword {is outside}, and the plague and the famine {are inside}; [the one] who [is] in the field will die by the sword, and [the one] who [is] in the city, famine and plague will devour him.
Ezekiel 14:21
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "How much more when I send my four punishments--the evil sword, and famine, and fierce animal, and a plague--to Jerusalem to cut it off, [both] human and animal!
There was no
Jeremiah 37:21
So King Zedekiah commanded, and they handed Jeremiah over in the courtyard of the guard, and they gave to him a round loaf of bread from the street of the bakers {every day} until the finishing of all the bread from the city. And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard.
Jeremiah 38:2
"Thus says Yahweh, 'The [one who] stays in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague. But the [one who] goes out to the Chaldeans will live. And his life will be for him as booty, and he will live.'
General references
Deuteronomy 28:52
And it shall besiege you in all your towns {until your high and fortified walls fall}, which you [are] trusting in {throughout your land}; and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you.
Isaiah 29:3
And I will encamp {in a circle} against you, and I will lay siege to you [with] towers and I will raise up siegeworks against you.