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Young's Literal Translation

2 Kings 25:3

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,

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 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.
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.
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 And it cometh to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, come hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encampeth against it, and buildeth against it a fortification round about. 2 And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah, 3 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, 4 then the city is broken up, and all the men of war [go] by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that [are] by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [are] against the city round about, and [the king] goeth the way of the plain. 5 And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him; 6 and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him -- judgment. 7 And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring 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 causeth him to reign over Gilead, and over the Ashurite, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over Israel -- all of it.
1 Kings 10:1
And the queen of Sheba is hearing of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, and cometh to try him with enigmas,
Job 6:19
Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.
Psalms 72:10
Kings of Tarshish and of the isles send back a present. Kings of Sheba and Seba a reward bring near.
Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, And all cutting the corners [of the beard],
Jeremiah 49:8
Flee, turn, go deep to dwell, ye inhabitants of Dedan, For the calamity of Esau I brought in upon him, The time I inspected him.
Ezekiel 25:13
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have stretched out My hand against Edom, And I have cut off from it man and beast, And given it up -- a waste, from Teman even to Dedan, By sword they do fall.
Ezekiel 27:6
Of oaks of Bashan they made thine oars, Thy bench they have made of ivory, A branch of Ashurim from isles of Chittim.
Ezekiel 27:20
Dedan [is] thy merchant, For clothes of freedom 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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