By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

biblegateway 2Ki 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city became so severe that the common people had no food.

biblegateway 2Ki 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

bibleoremus 2Ki 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

In the fourth month of that year, on the ninth day of the month, when famine was severe in the city and there was no food for the people,

biblegateway 2Ki 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

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.

biblegateway 2Ki 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

¹ tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

¹ sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

² tn Heb “the people of the land.”