2 Kings 25:3

New American Bible - revised edition

On the ninth day of the month, when famine had gripped the city, and the people of the land had no more food,

Cross References

2 Kings 25:2

The siege of the city continued until the eleventh year of Zedekiah.

2 Kings 6:24

After this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, mustered his whole army and laid siege to Samaria.

2 Kings 6:25

Because of the siege the famine in Samaria was so severe that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a fourth of a kab of “dove droppings” for five pieces of silver.

Isaiah 3:1

The Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah Support and staff— all support of bread, all support of water:

Jeremiah 19:9

I will have them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; they shall eat one another’s flesh during the harsh siege under which their enemies and those who seek their lives will confine them.

Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be confined in the court of the guard and given a ration of bread every day from the bakers’ street until all the bread in the city was eaten up. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Jeremiah 38:2

Thus says the Lord: Those who remain in this city shall die by means of the sword, starvation, and disease; but those who go out to the Chaldeans shall live. Their lives shall be spared them as spoils of war that they may live.

Jeremiah 39:2

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

Jeremiah 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month, when famine had gripped the city and the people had no more bread,

Ezekiel 14:21

Thus says the Lord God: Even though I send against Jerusalem my four evil punishments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—to cut off from it human being and beast alike,

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore, parents will eat their children in your midst, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishments upon you and scatter all who remain to the winds.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people shall die of disease or starve to death within you; another third shall fall by the sword all around you; a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue them with the sword.

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is outside; disease and hunger are within. Whoever is in the fields will die by the sword; whoever is in the city disease and hunger will devour.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Zechariah 8:19

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast days of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become occasions of joy and gladness, and happy festivals for the house of Judah. So love faithfulness and peace!