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Bible in Basic English

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.

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 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.

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 famine became so severe that there was no food for the people of the land.

A Conservative Version

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified

In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Darby Translation

In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

Julia Smith Translation

In the fourth month, 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 in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Lexham Expanded Bible

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.

Modern King James verseion

And in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, the famine was very grievous in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And in the fourth Month, the ninth day of the Month, there was so great hunger in the city that there were no more victuals 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

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

The Emphasized Bible

In the fourth month 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 in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

World English Bible

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Youngs Literal Translation

In the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath been no bread for the people of the land,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And in the fourth
רבעי רביעי 
R@biy`iy 
Usage: 56

חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

in the ninth
תּשׁעה תּשׁע 
Tesha` 
Usage: 58

day of the month
חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

the famine
רעב 
Ra`ab 
Usage: 101

in the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

for the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

Context Readings

The Fall Of Jerusalem

5 So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 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. 7 Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town 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 they went by the way of the Arabah.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:1

For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

2 Kings 25:3

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.

Jeremiah 38:9

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.

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:)

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.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

Jeremiah 15:2

And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

Jeremiah 21:9

He who keeps in this town will come to his death by the sword and through need of food and through disease; but he who goes out and gives himself up to the Chaldaeans who are shutting you in, will go on living, and will keep his life safe.

Jeremiah 25:10

And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

Lamentations 4:4-6

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.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

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 5:10-12

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 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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