2 Kings 25:3

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On the ninth day of the fourth  month, the famine in the city became so severe that the common people had no food.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:2

The blockade of the city lasted until Zedekiah’s eleventh year as king.

2 Kings 6:24

Later King Benhadad of Aram assembled his whole army. They went to Samaria and blockaded it.

2 Kings 6:25

The shortages caused by the blockade of Samaria became so severe that a donkey’s head sold for two pounds of silver and a half-pint of dove  manure for two ounces of silver.

Isaiah 3:1

See now, the Lord, the Lord of Armies, is going to take from Jerusalem and Judah every kind of support and their entire supply of food and water.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make the people eat the flesh of their sons and daughters. They will eat each other’s flesh during blockades and hardships that their enemies impose on them when they want to kill them.”

Jeremiah 37:21

King Zedekiah gave the command to have Jeremiah put in the courtyard of the prison. He gave him a loaf of bread every day from the bakers’ street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the prison.

Jeremiah 38:2

They heard Jeremiah say, “This is what the Lord says: Those who stay in this city will die in wars, famines, or plagues. But those who surrender to the Babylonians will live. They will escape with their lives.

Jeremiah 39:2

On the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year as king, they broke into the city.

Jeremiah 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city became so severe that the common people had no food.

Ezekiel 14:21

“This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will surely send four terrible punishments against Jerusalem. I will send wars, famines, wild animals, and plagues. They will destroy people and animals.

Ezekiel 5:10

That is why parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter whoever is left to the wind.

Ezekiel 5:12

One-third of you will die in plagues and be devoured in famines. Another third will die in battles against those around you. I will scatter the remaining third to the wind, and I will pursue them with a sword.

Ezekiel 7:15

“Outside are swords, and inside are plagues and famines. Whoever is in a field will die in battle. Whoever is in the city will be devoured by famines and plagues.

Leviticus 26:26

I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.

Zechariah 8:19

This is what the Lord of Armies says: The fast in the fourth month, the fast in the fifth month, the fast in the seventh month, and the fast in the tenth month will become joyful and glad occasions as well as happy festivals for the nation of Judah. So love truth and peace.