2 Kings 25:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

Cross References

Ezekiel 14:21

‘For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send my four  devastating judgements against Jerusalem #– #sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague #– #in order to wipe out both people and animals from it!

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is on the outside; plague and famine are on the inside. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword, and famine and plague will devour whoever is in the city.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you;  a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

Jeremiah 52:6

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

Jeremiah 38:2

‘This is what the Lord says: “Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine, and plague,  but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live.  He will retain his life like the spoils of war and will live.”

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Zechariah 8:19

The Lord of Armies says this: ‘The fast of the fourth month,  the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth  will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.’

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, fathers will eat their sons  within Jerusalem,  and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgements against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

Jeremiah 39:2

In the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was breached.

Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah gave orders, and Jeremiah was placed in the guard’s courtyard.  He was given a loaf of bread each day from the bakers’ street until all the bread was gone from the city. So Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard.

2 Kings 6:24

Some time later, King Ben-hadad  of Aram brought all his military units together and marched up and laid siege to Samaria.

2 Kings 6:25

So there was a severe famine  in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 880 grams  of silver, and a cup  of dove’s dung  sold for 55 grams  of silver.

2 Kings 25:2

The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

Isaiah 3:1

Note this: The Lord God of Armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah every kind of security: the entire supply of bread and water,

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the distressing siege inflicted on them by their enemies who intend to take their life.”