Jeremiah 52:6

6 On the ninth day of the ¹fourth month the ²famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Jeremiah 52:6 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 52:6

And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month
The month Tammuz ^F15, which answers to part of June and part of July; hence the fast of the fourth month, for the taking of the city, ( Zechariah 8:19 ) ; the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the
people of the land;
for the common people; though there might be some in the king's palace, and in the houses of princes and noblemen, and officers of the army; yet none for the soldiers, and the meaner sort of people; who therefore were disheartened and enfeebled, that they could not defend the city, or hold out any longer: the famine had been before this time, but was now increased to a prodigious degree, so that the people had no bread to eat; see ( Jeremiah 38:9 ) .

---

FOOTNOTES:

F15 T. Bab. Roshhashana, fol. 18. 2. & Taanith, fol. 28. 2.

Jeremiah 52:6 In-Context

4 Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

5 So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

6 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.

7 Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 39:2
• 2. 2 Kings 25:3; Isaiah 3:1; Jeremiah 38:9; Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:13