Jeremiah 52:6
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
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Gill's Exposition
Then the city was broken up,.... Either its gates were broke open, some one or other of them; or a breach was made in the walls of it, through which the Chaldean army entered:
and all the men of war…
This narrative begins no higher than the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, though there were two captivities before, one in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the other in the first of Jeconiah; but…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
In the fourth month In memory of this date also, a fast was appointed (Zec 8:19). The numeral, which was dropped out of the Kgs. narrative, here survives.
famine described in detail in Lamentations…
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