2 Kings 25:3

New English Translation

³By the ninth day of the fourth month^[a] the famine in the city was so severe the residents^[b] had no food.

2 Kings 25:3 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 Kings 25:3 tn Heb “the people of the land.”

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