2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

Le 26:26; De 28:52,53; Jer 37:21; Jer 38:2; Jer 39:2; Jer 52:6; La 4:4-10; Eze 4:9-17; Eze 5:10,12; Eze 7:15; Eze 14:21; Zec 8:19

¹ tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

² tn Heb “the people of the land.”