2 Kings 25:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ By the ninth of the month the scarcity of food had become 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

2 Kings 25:2

And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of Sovereign Tsiḏ

2 Kings 6:24

And after this it came to be that Ben-Haḏ

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great scarcity of food in Shomeron. And see, they besieged it until a donkey’s head went at eighty pieces of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five pieces of silver.

Isaiah 3:1

For look, the Master, יהוה  of hosts, is turning aside from Yerushalayim and from Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 19:9

“And I shall make them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives distress them.” ’

Jeremiah 37:21

Tsiḏ

Jeremiah 38:2

“Thus said יהוה, ‘He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence, but whoever goes over to the Chaldeans shall live. And his life shall be as a prize to him, and he shall live.’

Jeremiah 39:2

In the eleventh year of Tsiḏ

Jeremiah 52:6

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

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus said the Master יהוה, “How much more it shall be when I send My four evil judgments on Yerushalayim: the sword and scarcity of food and evil beasts and pestilence, to cut off man and beast from it?

Ezekiel 5:10

‘Therefore fathers are going to eat their sons in your midst, and sons eat their fathers. And I shall execute judgments among you and scatter all your remnant to all the winds.

Ezekiel 5:12

‘One-third of you shall die of pestilence, and be consumed with scarcity of food in your midst. And one-third shall fall by the sword all around you. And I shall scatter another third to all the winds, and draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 7:15

‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the scarcity of food inside. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and he who is in a city, scarcity of food and pestilence devour him,

Leviticus 26:26

‘When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Zechariah 8:19

“Thus said יהוה  of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth months, are to be joy and gladness, and pleasant appointed times for the house of Yehuḏ