2 Kings 25:3

3 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month, when the famine in the city was so severe that there was no food for the people of the land,

2 Kings 25:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 25:3

(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)

2 Kings 25:3 In-Context

1 so in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel marched against Yerushalayim with his entire army. He set up camp against it and built siege towers against it on every side.

2 The city remained under siege into the eleventh year of King Tzidkiyahu.

3 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month, when the famine in the city was so severe that there was no food for the people of the land,

4 they broke through into the city. All the soldiers [fled] by night through the gate between the two walls, near the king's garden. Because the Kasdim were surrounding the city, the king took the route through the 'Aravah.

5 But the army of the Kasdim went in pursuit of the king and overtook him on the plains near Yericho; all his troops deserted him.