2 Kings 25:3

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

2 Kings 25:3

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Berean Literal Bible

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2 Kings 25

¹ So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

² And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

³ 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.

⁴ Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

⁵ but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.

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