Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And on the ninth
תּשׁעה תּשׁע 
Tesha` 
Usage: 58

day of the fourth month
חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

the famine
רעב 
Ra`ab 
Usage: 101

in the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

and there was no bread
לחם 
Lechem 
Usage: 298

for the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

References

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Context Readings

The Final Invasion Of Nebuchadnezzar

2 And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 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. 4 So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:26

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

Deuteronomy 28:52-53

Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

Jeremiah 37:21

Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.

Jeremiah 38:2

These are the words of the Lord: Whoever goes on living in this town will come to his death by the sword or through need of food or by disease: but whoever goes out to the Chaldaeans will keep his life out of the power of the attackers and be safe.

Jeremiah 39:2

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)

Jeremiah 52:6

In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

Lamentations 4:4-10

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

Ezekiel 4:9-17

And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.

Ezekiel 5:10

For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third will be put to the sword round about you; and a third I will send away to every wind, letting loose a sword after them.

Ezekiel 7:15

Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

Ezekiel 14:21

For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

Zechariah 8:19

This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.

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