3On 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.


In Context

1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

3 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.

4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden: (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army was scattered from him.

2 Kings 25:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

25:3By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:3And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:3The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:3On 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:3On the ninth of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:3And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:3On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:3on the ninth of the month — when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:3And 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.