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2 Kings 25:3
“On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 25
It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
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The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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