2 Kings 25:3

3 On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,

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 Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, and so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls around it,

2 and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.

3 On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,

4 the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley.

5 But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah, captured him in the plains near Jericho, and all his soldiers deserted him.

Footnotes

• [a]. [Probable text (see Jr 52.6)] the fourth month; [Hebrew] the month.