2 Kings 25:3

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Events

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• Reign of Zedekiahc. 597 BC

Related verses

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• 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.
• Ezekiel 7:15
  The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.
• Deuteronomy 28:52–53
  They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
• Ezekiel 14:21
  For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
• Jeremiah 38:2
  “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.
• Lamentations 4:4–10
  The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
• Leviticus 26:26
  When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
• Ezekiel 5:12
  A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
• Ezekiel 5:10
  As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
• 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.
• 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.”
• Ezekiel 4:9–17
  But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Parallels

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2 Chronicles 36:15–21· Jeremiah 39:1–10

Glossary

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Babylon, Babylonia· Book of Jeremiah· Chaldea, Chaldeans· Chronology of the Bible (Old Testament)· Dispersion of the Jews, Diaspora· Ezekiel, Book of· Famine· Kings, Books of First and Second· People of the Land

Topics

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Armies: March in Ranks of Jerusalem· Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Besieged and Took Jerusalem· Famine in Jerusalem, from Siege· Famine: Instances of, in Scripture: During the Siege of Jerusalem· Jerusalem: Calamities of, Mentioned: Taken and Burned by Nebuchadnezzar· Jerusalem: Captured and Pillaged by Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon· Prophecy: Miscellaneous, Fulfilled: Captivity of the Jews Predicted and Fulfilled· Siege by Nebuchadnezzar· Siege: Distress of the Inhabitants During A· Sieges: Cities Invested by Often Suffered from Famine· Zedekiah: Nebuchadnezzar Destroys the City and Temple