2 Kings 25:3

World English Bible (WEB)

On 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.

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1 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.

2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

3 On 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.

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 around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

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

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WEB World English Bible: On 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.
KJV 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.
BSB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT 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,
DBY 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.
WBS Webster Bible: 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.