2 Kings 25:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was complete in the city; there was no food for the people of the land.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

³ On the ninth day of the month, the famine in the city got so bad that no food remained for the common people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ on the ninth day of the month. And a famine prevailed in the city; neither was there bread for the people of the land.

2 Kings 25:3 Cross References

Ezekiel 14:21

Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside; those in the field die by the sword; those in the city—famine and pestilence devour them.

Ezekiel 5:12

One third of you shall die of pestilence or be consumed by famine among you; one third shall fall by the sword around you; and one third I will scatter to every wind and will unsheathe the sword after them.

Jeremiah 52:6

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

Jeremiah 38:2

“Thus says the Lord: Those who stay in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but those who go out to the Chaldeans shall live; they shall have their lives as a prize of war and live.

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight, and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Zechariah 8:19

“Thus says the Lord 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 seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah; therefore love truth and peace.”

Ezekiel 5:10

Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.

Jeremiah 39:2

in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard, and a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

2 Kings 6:24

Some time later King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army; he marched against Samaria and laid siege to it.

2 Kings 6:25

As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver and one-fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

2 Kings 25:2

So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

Isaiah 3:1

For now the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff— all support of bread and all support of water—

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and all shall eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.