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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.
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A Prophesied Famine
Commentators stress that this severe famine was not a random tragedy but a direct fulfillment of divine judgment. The horrific conditions, including parents eating their children, were prophesied centuries earlier in books like Leviticus and Deuteronomy and described in detail by prophets like Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
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2 Kings
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19th Century
Anglican
And on the ninth day of the fourth month. —The text is supplemented from Jeremiah 39:2 and Jeremiah 52:6. The Syriac, however, has…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)
Presbyterian
Jerusalem was so fortified that it could not be taken until famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and Lamentations of Jere…
