Parallel Verses

NET Bible

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

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.

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.

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 The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year. 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food. 4 The enemy broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king's garden. (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:26

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 28:52-53

They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse -- those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

Jeremiah 37:21

Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the baker's street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Jeremiah 38:2

"The Lord says, 'Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians will live. They will escape with their lives.'"

Jeremiah 39:2

It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.

Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Lamentations 4:4-10

(Dalet) The infant's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

Ezekiel 4:9-17

"As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side -- 390 days -- you will eat it.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.

Ezekiel 14:21

"For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments -- sword, famine, wild animals, and plague -- to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals!

Zechariah 8:19

"The Lord who rules over all says, 'The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.'

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