Jeremiah 52:6

⁴ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

⁵ So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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.

⁷ Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

⁸ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

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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, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
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Jeremiah 39:2
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
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Jeremiah 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
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2 Kings 25:3
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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Ezekiel 4:9–17
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
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Ezekiel 14:21
For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
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Jeremiah 21:9
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
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Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
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