2 Kings 25:3 Parallel Translations

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city became so severe that the common people had no food. (GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

On the ninth of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

ERV:

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.

JPS:

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.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

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:

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,

2 Kings 25:3 Cross References

XREF:

2 Kings 6:24 Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.

2 Kings 6:25 There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

Lamentations 4:9 Better are those slain with the sword Than those slain with hunger; For they pine away, being stricken For lack of the fruits of the field.

Lamentations 4:10 The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

25:3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine {c} prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
(c) So much that the mothers ate their children, La 4:10.

WES:

25:3 The people - For the common people, but only for the great men. Now they eat their own children for want of food, Lam 4:3, and c. Jeremiah in this extremity, earnestly persuaded the king to surrender; but his heart was hardened to his destruction.

MHC:

25:1-7 Jerusalem was so fortified, that it could not be taken till famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find more of this event; here it suffices to say, that the impiety and misery of the besieged were very great. At length the city was taken by storm. The king, his family, and his great men escaped in the night, by secret passages. But those deceive themselves who think to escape God's judgments, as much as those who think to brave them. By what befell Zedekiah, two prophecies, which seemed to contradict each other, were both fulfilled. Jeremiah prophesied that Zedekiah should be brought to Babylon, Jer 32:5; 34:3; Ezekiel, that he should not see Babylon, Eze 12:13. He was brought thither, but his eyes being put out, he did not see it.

CONC:

Almost Bread Eat Famine Fourth Month Ninth Prevailed Severe Sore Store Town

Almost Bread City Eat Famine Food Fourth Month Ninth Prevailed Severe Sore Store

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