By the ninth day of the fourth[a] month the famine(A) in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:3 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth.

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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