2 Kings 25:3 meaning and explanation
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
2 Kings 25:3, Berean Standard Bible
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These words describe Jerusalem under Babylonian siege in the final months before its fall in 586 BC. Nebuchadnezzar's army had encircled the city and cut off its supply, so that after roughly eighteen months the stored food ran out.
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