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2 Kings 25:3 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 25 · verse 3
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.2 Kings 25:3 · King James Version
2 Kings 25:3 in context
1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3And 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.
4And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
5And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- prevailedchâzaqto fasten uponH2388 →
- faminerâʻâbhungerH7458 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- ninthtêshaʻnine or ninthH8672 →
- monthchôdeshthe new moonH2320 →
- breadlechemfood , especially bread, or grainH3899 →
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We left king Zedekiah in rebellion against the king of Babylon (Kg2 24:20), contriving and endeavouring to shake off his yoke, when he was no way able to do it, nor took the right method by making God his friend first. Now here we have an account of the fatal consequences of that attempt. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7