2 Kings 25:3 Meaning and Explanation
“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.”
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Read Full Chapter →By the fourth month the famine grows so severe that there is no bread left in Jerusalem.
What Does 2 Kings 25:3 Mean?
The siege has done its grim work. Cut off from field and harvest, the people inside the walls have eaten through every store. The day is dated precisely, for it marks the moment the city could no longer feed its own.
Bread, the daily gift of God, has run out where His house once stood. The hunger of Jerusalem is a parable of a deeper famine that follows when a people drifts from the Lord. He who is the Bread of Life offers a sustenance no siege can cut off, and a fullness that outlasts every empty storehouse.
2 Kings 25:3 in the Original Language
lechem (לֶחֶם), 'bread' -- the basic staple of life, here gone entirely.
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What does 2 Kings 25:3 mean?
By the fourth month the famine grows so severe that there is no bread left in Jerusalem.