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2 Kings 25:3

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.

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ASV

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

KJV

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.

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10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בְּתִשְׁעָ֣הbe.tish.'Ahon [day] nineH8672 →
לַחֹ֔דֶשׁla.Cho.deshof the monthH2320 →
וַיֶּחֱזַ֥קvai.ye.che.Zakand it was severeH2388 →
הָרָעָ֖בha.ra.'Avthe famineH7458 →
בָּעִ֑ירba.'Irin the cityH5892 →
וְלֹא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
הָ֥יָהHa.yahit belongedH1961 →
לֶ֖חֶםLe.chemfoodH3899 →
לְעַ֥םle.'Amto [the] people ofH5971 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ha.'A.retzthe landH776 →

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Lamentations 4:4–10The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.Ezekiel 14:21For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?Jeremiah 38:2“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.Ezekiel 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.Deuteronomy 28:52–53They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.Ezekiel 7:15The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.Jeremiah 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.Ezekiel 4:9–17But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.Zechariah 8:19“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”Jeremiah 39:2And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.Ezekiel 5:10As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’Jeremiah 37:21So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.Isaiah 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

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