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By the ninth day of the fourth month[a] the famine in the city was so severe the residents[b] had no food.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:6 sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.
  2. Jeremiah 52:6 tn Heb “the people of the land.”