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2 Kings 25:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Kings 25:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 On the ninth day of the month,[a] when famine had gripped the city, and the people of the land had no more food,
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- 25:3 Ninth day of the month: the text does not say which month, but Jer 39:2 and 52:6 set the breaching of the city walls in the fourth month; in later times that was the date of a fast commemorating the event (cf. Zec 8:19). People of the land: the influential citizens (see note on 11:14); even they, whose resources went beyond those of the ordinary people, were starving.
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