NET Bible
"By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food."
— Jeremiah 52:6, NET Bible
“And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.”
“In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. ”
“In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.”
“And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.”
“In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.”
“And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.”
What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the LORD’s anger when he drove them out of his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah.
The city remained under siege until Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.
They broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden.(The Babylonians had the city surrounded.) Then they headed for the rift valley.
But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with Zedekiah in the rift valley plains of Jericho, and his entire army deserted him.
They captured him and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the territory of Hamath and he passed sentence on him there.