2 Kings 25:3 - Revised Standard Version On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 on the ninth day of the month. And a famine prevailed in the city; neither was there bread for the people of the land. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The ninth day of the month. And a famine prevailed in the city; and there was no bread for the people of the land. |
Afterward Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;
And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and every one shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’
So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard; and a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
“Thus says the Lord, He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; he shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city, that there was no food for the people of the land.
“For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in the midst of you; a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
The sword is without, pestilence and famine are within; he that is in the field dies by the sword; and him that is in the city famine and pestilence devour.
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver your bread again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.