2 Kings 25:3

New Century Version

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city. There was no food for the people to eat.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:2

The city was under attack until Zedekiah’s eleventh year as king.

2 Kings 6:24

Later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered his whole army and surrounded and attacked Samaria.

2 Kings 6:25

There was a shortage of food in Samaria. It was so bad that a donkey’s head sold for about two pounds of silver, and half of a pint of dove’s dung sold for about two ounces of silver.

Isaiah 3:1

Understand this: The Lord God All-Powerful will take away everything Judah and Jerusalem need— all the food and water,

Jeremiah 19:9

An enemy army will surround the city and will not let anyone go out to get food. I will make the people so hungry that they will eat the bodies of their own sons and daughters, and then they will begin to eat each other.’

Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be put under guard in the courtyard of the guard and to be given bread each day from the street of the bakers until there was no more bread in the city. So he stayed under guard in the courtyard of the guard.

Jeremiah 38:2

“This is what the Lord says: ‘Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, or hunger, or terrible diseases. But everyone who surrenders to the Babylonian army will live; they will escape with their lives and live.’

Jeremiah 39:2

This lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month in Zedekiah’s eleventh year. Then the city wall was broken through.

Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city; there was no food for the people to eat.

Ezekiel 14:21

“This is what the Lord God says: My plans for Jerusalem are much worse! I will send my four terrible punishments against it—war, hunger, wild animals, and disease—to destroy its people and animals.

Ezekiel 5:10

So parents among you will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and will scatter to the winds all who are left alive.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of you will die by disease or be destroyed by hunger inside your walls. A third will fall dead by the sword outside your walls. And a third I will scatter in every direction as I chase them with a sword.

Ezekiel 7:15

“The sword is outside, and disease and hunger are inside. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword. Hunger and disease will destroy those in the city.

Leviticus 26:26

There will be very little bread to eat; ten women will be able to cook all your bread in one oven. They will measure each piece of bread, and you will eat, but you will still be hungry.

Zechariah 8:19

This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: “The special days when you fast in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become good, joyful, happy feasts in Judah. But you must love truth and peace.”