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.


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 host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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

3 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.

4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were 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 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 English Revised 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 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.