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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 52:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;
- Jeremiah 39:2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 38:9 “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”
- Leviticus 26:26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Deuteronomy 28:52-53 They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you. You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
- Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
- Jeremiah 15:2 It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’
- Jeremiah 19:9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.” ’
- Jeremiah 21:9 He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life.
- Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
- Lamentations 4:4-6 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them. Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills. For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her.
- Lamentations 5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
- Ezekiel 4:9-17 “Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it. Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it. You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink. You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.” Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!” Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.” Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay; that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 5:10-12 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds. Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity. A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 7:15 “ ‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.
- Ezekiel 14:21 For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
- Zechariah 8:19 Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then the city was broken up,.... Either its gates…
Then the city was broken up,.... Either its gates were broke open, some one or other of them; or a breach was made in the walls of it, through which the Chaldean army entered:
and all the men of war fled; the soldiers, with their officers, not being able to stand before the army of the king of Babylon:
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and went forth out of the city by night; at which time, very probably, the attack was made, and the gates of the city forced open, or the walls broke down; Josephus (p) says it was taken in the middle of the night:
by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; See Gill on Jer 39:4;
now the Chaldeans were by the city round about; as part of their army entered into it, the other part surrounded it; or, however, were placed at the gates and avenues all around, that none might escape:
and they went by the way of the plain; that is, the men of war or soldiers that fled, together with King Zedekiah, his family and princes; see Jer 39:4.
(p) Antiqu. l. 10. c. 8. sect. 2. Ed. Hudson.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. And in the fourth month] See Clarke…
Verse 6. And in the fourth month] See Clarke on Jer 39:1, &c. The fourth month answers nearly to our July.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. In the fourth month] In memory of this…
6. In the fourth month] In memory of this date also, a fast was appointed (Zec_8:19). The numeral, which was dropped out of the Kgs. narrative, here survives.
famine] described in detail in Lamentations (Jer_2:19 f., Jer_4:3 ff., Jer_5:10). Cp. Eze_4:16 f., Jer_5:16 f.
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the people of the land] the poorer classes, who had taken refuge in Jerusalem, or who dwelt there.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) And in the fourth month.—Omitted in the Hebrew…
(6) And in the fourth month.—Omitted in the Hebrew of 2Ki_25:3, but supplied in the English version.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The famine was sore. (see the pathetic descriptions in…
The famine was sore. (see the pathetic descriptions in Lam_1:19, 20 2:11, 12, 20 4:9, 10)
Famine.
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One of the most frightful that over befell any city is told of here. Its ghastly details may be traced out from this verse and different parts of the writings of Jeremiah and Ezekiel. This verse tells how the store of bread gradually failed; Jer_37:21 and Jer_38:2-9 with what difficulty ever so little was gained (also Eze_5:16 Eze_5:16 Eze_12:19) Then Lam_4:7 and Lam_5:10 tell of the sufferings of the nobles; Lam_4:5 and Eze_4:12-15 of the degradation of the high-born ladies of Jerusalem, snatching morsels of bread from the dunghills. The cries of the poor little children; (Lam_2:11, Lam_2:12, 19 4:4) the hard-heartedness of their parents. (Lam_4:3) Fathers ate the flesh of their own sons; (Eze_5:10) mothers that of their new-born babes. (Lam_2:20 Lam_4:10) Thus frightful was this famine. And it is ever a fearful thing, let the cause be what it may. Note
I WHEREFORE THEY ARE SENT.
I As punishment:
(1) For violation of natural law. When men will crowd together in space too limited or on lands that will not yield sufficient, or will out of greed or selfishness refuse to cultivate aright the land they have, then sooner or later famine will come.
(2) For violation of Divine laws. So in the case of famine told of here. But: They are sent as prompters and promoters of repentance and amendment. In case of violated natural laws they have again and again performed this needed office. Men have spread themselves abroad, communications between one district and another have been opened up, improved methods of cultivation have been adopted, wiser and juster laws have been enacted, and men"s energies and thoughts have been roused to devise remedies and safeguards against the recurrence of the evil. And when it is the Divine laws that have been violated, the Divine laws against sin for natural laws are also Divine famine has brought many a prodigal to himself, and led him to say," I will arise and go to my Father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned." It did so in the case of the Jews.
II BUT FAMINE IS AN UNNECESSARY AND UNNATURAL THING. For in our Father"s house there is bread enough and to spare, and none need perish with hunger. The world contains ample store; the resources of nature are in no degree exhausted, and therefore it can only be by negligence of God"s laws in nature that famine can in ordinary cases occur. And why need any go away into the far country of sin, and so compel the righteous and loving Father to send such sore judgment after them in order to bring them back? "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself!" It is not according to God"s will in any case.
III AND WHAT IS TRUE OF THE LITERAL IS TRUE ALSO OF THE SPIRITUAL FAMINE.
1. It is caused by man"s disobedience. So it was at the first. Sin thrust him forth from the Father"s house, the happy home where he never knew what want was. And so it is still. Had those who knew of Christ and his redemption but obeyed the word, "Let him that heareth say, Come," long ere this the whole world would have been evangelized. And if the same command were obeyed now, the like result would speedily follow. Christ has given a self-propagating power to his Church, which it has failed to use, and therefore spiritual famines are and will be until the Church obeys her Lord"s commands. But:
2. Such famine need not be. Christ is the "Bread of life" for all, and there is enough and to spare for all
CONCLUSION. Let not thy brother hunger if thou canst give him of this bread. Think of what famine means, and let thy charity be aroused. Take care that thou eatest not merely talkest of the Bread of life thyself. C.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain fourth month
fourth month
i.e. July.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 By the ninth day of the fourth month
By the ninth day of the fourth month
This is the fourth month of the Hebrew calendar. It is during the dry season. The ninth day is near the beginning of July on Western calendars. Zedekiah had been king for ten years, three months, and eight days. (See: Hebrew Months and Ordinal Numbers)
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city
This refers to Jerusalem.
the city was broken into
This can be translated in active form. AT: "the Babylonians broke through the wall around the city" (See: Active or Passive)
the two walls
the wall of the king's garden and the wall of the city
plains
flat land
All his army was scattered
This can be translated in active form. Possible meanings are 1) "the Chaldeans scattered his entire army" or 2) "all of his soldiers ran away in different directions." (See: Active or Passive)
translationWords
day
year
famine
gate
Chaldea
Arabah
Jordan River
Jericho
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