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New Century Version

2 Kings 25:3

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Famine;   Jerusalem;   Prophecy;   Siege;   Zedekiah;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abundance-Want;   Famine;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Famine;   Jerusalem;   Sieges;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Jeremiah, the Book of;   Zedekiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Exile;   Gedaliah;   Israel;   Jeremiah;   Jerusalem;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Lamentations;   Month;   War;   Zedekiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Famine;   Pharaoh;   Zedekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Kings, the Books of;   Lamentations;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Famine and Drought;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Famine;   Israel;   Jeremiah;   Lamentations, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Pharaoh;   Riblah;   Zedekiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Month;   Pha'raoh,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zedekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Famine;   Siege;   Zedekiah (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
King James Version
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.
English 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.
New English Translation
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.
Amplified Bible
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine [caused by the siege] was severe in the city; there was no food for the people of the land.
New American Standard Bible
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.
World English Bible
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the ninth day of the moneth the famine was sore in the citie, so that there was no bread for the people of the lande.
Legacy Standard Bible
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Berean Standard Bible
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
Complete Jewish Bible
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month, when the famine in the city was so severe that there was no food for the people of the land,
Darby Translation
On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Easy-to-Read Version
The famine was getting worse and worse in the city. By the 9th day of the fourth month, there was no more food for the common people in the city.
George Lamsa Translation
And in the eleventh year of King Zedekiah, on the ninth day of the fifth month, the famine was severe in the city and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Good News Translation
On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
Lexham English Bible
In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.
Literal Translation
on the ninth of the month, when the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But on ye nyenth daye of the fourth moneth was the honger so stronge in the cite, that the people of the londe had nothinge to eate.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the ninth day of the moneth, there was so great hunger in the citie, that there was no bread for the people of the lande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And on the ninth day of the fourth moneth, the famine preuailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in the nynthe day of the monethe; and hungur `hadde maistrie in the citee, and `breed was not to the puple of the lond.
Update Bible Version
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was intense in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New King James Version
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
New Living Translation
By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign, the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.
New Life Bible
On the ninth day of the fourth month, there was no food left in the city. There was no more food for the people of the land.
New Revised Standard
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
On the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe in the city, - and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land,
Douay-Rheims Bible
The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
on 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,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
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.

Contextual Overview

1 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army during Zedekiah's ninth year as king, on the tenth day of the tenth month. He made a camp around the city and piled dirt against the city walls to attack it. 2 The city was under attack until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king. 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city. There was no food for the people to eat. 4 Then the city was broken into, and the whole army ran away at night through the gate between the two walls by the king's garden. While the Babylonians were still surrounding the city, Zedekiah and his men ran away toward the Jordan Valley. 5 But the Babylonian army chased King Zedekiah and caught up with him in the plains of Jericho. All of his army was scattered from him, 6 so they captured Zedekiah and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah. There he passed sentence on Zedekiah. 7 They killed Zedekiah's sons as he watched. Then they put out his eyes and put bronze chains on him and took him to Babylon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3416, bc 588

the ninth day: Jeremiah 39:2, Jeremiah 52:6, Zechariah 8:19

the famine: Leviticus 26:26, Deuteronomy 28:52, Deuteronomy 28:53, Lamentations 4:4-10, Ezekiel 4:9-17, Ezekiel 5:10, Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 7:15, Ezekiel 14:21

there was no: Jeremiah 37:21, Jeremiah 38:2

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:25 - a great famine Isaiah 8:21 - hardly bestead Jeremiah 41:1 - the seventh month

Cross-References

2 Samuel 2:9
and made him king of Gilead, Ashuri, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all Israel.
1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to test him with hard questions.
Job 6:19
The groups of travelers from Tema look for water, and the traders of Sheba look hopefully.
Psalms 72:10
Let the kings of Tarshish and the faraway lands bring him gifts. Let the kings of Sheba and Seba bring their presents to him.
Jeremiah 25:23
the people of Dedan and Tema and Buz; all who cut their hair short;
Jeremiah 49:8
You people living in the town of Dedan, run away and hide in deep caves, because I will bring disaster on the people of Esau. It is time for me to punish them.
Ezekiel 25:13
So this is what the Lord God says: I will use my power against Edom, killing every human and animal in it. And I will destroy Edom all the way from Teman to Dedan as they die in battle.
Ezekiel 27:6
They made your oars from oak trees from Bashan. They made your deck from cypress trees from the coast of Cyprus and set ivory into it.
Ezekiel 27:20
"‘People of Dedan became merchants for you, trading saddle blankets for riding.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 25:3. 2 Kings 25:2.


 
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