Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
On the ninth day of the fourth month
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.
Holman Bible
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.
International Standard Version
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the resulting famine had become so severe in the city that no food remained for the people who lived in the land.
A Conservative Version
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.
Amplified
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine [caused by the siege] was severe in the city; there was no food for the people of the land.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
On the ninth of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Julia Smith Translation
In the ninth to the month and the famine will be strong in the city, and there was not bread for the people of the land.
King James 2000
And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.
Modern King James verseion
on the ninth of the fourth month, when famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the ninth day of the fourth month of that year, there was so great hunger in the city, that there was no sustenance for the people of the land.
NET Bible
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.
New Heart 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.
The Emphasized Bible
On the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe in the city, - and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land,
Webster
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.
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.
Youngs 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,
Themes
Armies » March in ranks » Of jerusalem
Babylon » Nebuchadnezzar king of » Besieged and took jerusalem
Famine » Instances of » In jerusalem, from siege
Famine » Instances of, in scripture » During the siege of jerusalem
Jerusalem » Captured and pillaged by » Nebuchadnezzar, king of babylon
Kings » Who reigned over judah » Zedekiah
Prophecy » Miscellaneous, fulfilled » Captivity of the jews predicted and fulfilled
Siege » Distress of the inhabitants during a
Siege » Instances of » Jerusalem » By nebuchadnezzar
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 25:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Final Invasion Of Nebuchadnezzar
2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 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. 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 28:52-53
And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
Jeremiah 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers'street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Jeremiah 38:2
Thus saith Jehovah, He that abideth 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, and his life shall be unto him for a prey, and he shall live.
Jeremiah 39:2
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)
Jeremiah 52:6
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.
Lamentations 4:4-10
The 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 4:9-17
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, 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, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on thee; and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the winds.
Ezekiel 5:12
A 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 a third part I will scatter unto all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel 7:15
The 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.
Ezekiel 14:21
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
Zechariah 8:19
Thus saith Jehovah 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 truth and peace.