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2 Kings 25

2 Kings 25:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And on the ninth
tesha` (Hebrew #8672)
perhaps from 8159 through the idea of a turn to the next or full number ten; nine or (ord.) ninth
KJV usage: nine (+ -teen, + -teenth, -th).
Pronounce: tay'-shah
Origin: or (masculine) tishtah {tish-aw'}
day of the fourth month
chodesh (Hebrew #2320)
the new moon; by implication, a month
KJV usage: month(-ly), new moon.
Pronounce: kho'-desh
Origin: from 2318
the famine
ra`ab (Hebrew #7458)
hunger (more or less extensive)
KJV usage: dearth, famine, + famished, hunger.
Pronounce: raw-awb'
Origin: from 7456
prevailed
chazaq (Hebrew #2388)
to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer
KJV usage: aid, amend, X calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.
Pronounce: khaw-zak'
Origin: a primitive root
in the city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
, and there was no bread
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
for the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
of the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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A.M. 3416.
B.C. 588.
the ninth day.
Jer. 39:2• 2And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. (Jer. 39:2)
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Jer. 52:6• 6And 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. (Jer. 52:6)
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Zech. 8:19• 19{i}Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful gatherings. Love ye then truth and peace.{/i} (Zech. 8:19)
the famine.
Lev. 26:26• 26When I break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. (Lev. 26:26)
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Deut. 28:52‑53• 52{i}And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.{/i}
 53{i}And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee.{/i} (Deut. 28:52‑53)
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Lam. 4:4‑10• 4The tongue of the suckling cleaveth to its palate for thirst;{HR}Infants ask bread—none breaketh [it] for them.
 5They that fed daintily perish in the streets;{HR}They who were brought up on scarlet embrace dunghills.
 6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,{HR}That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
 7Her Nazarites were brighter than snow, they were whiter than milk;{HR}They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their cutting (shape) of sapphire.
 8Their aspect is darker than dusk, they are not known in the streets;{HR}Their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is dried up like a stick.
 9Happier the slain with the sword than the slain with hunger;{HR}Because these pine away pierced through for the fruits of the field.
 10The hands of pitiful women boiled their children;{HR}They became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. (Lam. 4:4‑10)
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Ezek. 4:9‑17• 9Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
 10And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
 11Thou shalt drink water also by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
 12And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung which cometh out of man, in their sight.
 13And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
 14Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came abominable flesh into my mouth.
 15Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
 16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment;
 17that they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. (Ezek. 4:9‑17)
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Ezek. 5:10,12• 10Therefore the fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
 12A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. (Ezek. 5:10,12)
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Ezek. 7:15• 15{i}The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.{/i} (Ezek. 7:15)
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Ezek. 14:21• 21For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? (Ezek. 14:21)
there was no.
Jer. 37:21• 21Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. (Jer. 37:21)
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Jer. 38:2• 2Thus saith Jehovah, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live. (Jer. 38:2)
• (Jer. 19:9). During all this time, despite the innumerable dangers threatening him Jeremiah stands firm for the Lord, according to His word (Jer. 15:20-21). (“Zedekiah: 2 Kings 24:18 - 25:21” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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On the ninth of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

W. Kelly Translation

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On the ninth of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)