By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. Cross References 2 Kings 6:24 Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria. 2 Kings 6:25 So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove's dung sold for five shekels of silver. 2 Kings 25:2 And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year. Jeremiah 37:21 So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard. Jeremiah 52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. Lamentations 4:9 Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce. Lamentations 4:10 The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Zechariah 8:19 "This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace." Treasury of Scripture 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. A. Jeremiah 39:2 Jeremiah 52:6 Zechariah 8:19 the famine. Leviticus 26:26 Deuteronomy 28:52,53 Lamentations 4:4-10 there was no. Jeremiah 37:21 Jeremiah 38:2 |