2 Kings 25:3

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.

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

2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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.

4 And the city was broken up , and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.