2 Kings 25:3
What does 2 Kings 25:3 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Kings 25:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000On 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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
American Standard Version · 1901On 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
Bible in Basic English · 1949Now 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862on 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,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Context
v.2So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
v.3This passage
v.4Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:52
And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
- Ezekiel 4:9
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, 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, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.
- Jeremiah 39:2
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),
- Jeremiah 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
- Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
- Leviticus 26:26
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.