Jeremiah 52:6

⁴ 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.

⁵ And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

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.

⁷ Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

⁸ but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.
KJV: And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
WEB: In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
ASV: In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
DARBY: In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
BLB: In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the hunger had become strong in the city, and there was not food for the people of the land.

ÅB: I den fjerde måned, på den niende dag i måneden, var hungersnøden så stor i byen at landets folk ikke hadde noe å spise.
OTB: På den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden var hungersnøden i byen så alvorlig at det ikke var mat til folket i landet.
B1930: I den fjerde måned, på den niende dag i måneden, var hungersnøden så stor i byen at landets folk ikke hadde noget å ete.

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Cross references

Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
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Jeremiah 39:2
And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
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Jeremiah 38:9
“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
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2 Kings 25:3
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.
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Ezekiel 4:9–17
But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
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Ezekiel 14:21
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
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Jeremiah 21:9
Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
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Deuteronomy 32:24
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
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