Bible Cross References
A. M. 3416. B.C. 588. the ninth day
Jeremiah 39:2
On the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year as king, the city walls were broken through.
Jeremiah 52:6
On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
Zechariah 8:19
"The fasts held in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become festivals of joy and gladness for the people of Judah. You must love truth and peace."
the famine
Leviticus 26:26
I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
Deuteronomy 28:52
They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
Deuteronomy 28:53
"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
Lamentations 4:4-10
4
They let their babies die of hunger and thirst; children are begging for food that no one will give them.
5
People who once ate the finest foods die starving in the streets; those raised in luxury are pawing through garbage for food.
6
My people have been punished even more than the inhabitants of Sodom, which met a sudden downfall at the hands of God.
7
Our princes were undefiled and pure as snow, vigorous and strong, glowing with health.
8
Now they lie unknown in the streets, their faces blackened in death; their skin, dry as wood, has shriveled on their bones.
9
Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.
10
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
Ezekiel 4:9-17
9
"Now take some wheat, barley, beans, peas, millet, and spelt. Mix them all together and make bread. That is what you are to eat during the 390 days you are lying on your left side.
10
You will be allowed eight ounces of bread a day, and it will have to last until the next day.
11
You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day.
12
You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you."
13
The LORD said, "This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids, when I scatter them to foreign countries."
14
But I replied, "No, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean."
15
So God said, "Very well. I will let you use cow dung instead, and you can bake your bread on that."
16
And he added, "Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.
17
They will run out of bread and water; they will be in despair, and they will waste away because of their sins."
Ezekiel 5:10
As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.
Ezekiel 5:12
A third of your people will die from sickness and hunger in the city; a third will be cut down by swords outside the city; and I will scatter the last third to the winds and pursue them with a sword.
Ezekiel 7:15
There is fighting in the streets, and sickness and hunger in the houses. Anyone who is out in the country will die in the fighting, and anyone in the city will be a victim of sickness and hunger.
Ezekiel 14:21
This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "I will send my four worst punishments on Jerusalem---war, famine, wild animals, and disease---to destroy people and animals alike.
there was no
Jeremiah 37:21
So King Zedekiah ordered me to be locked up in the palace courtyard. I stayed there, and each day I was given a loaf of bread from the bakeries until all the bread in the city was gone.
Jeremiah 38:2
the LORD had said, "Whoever stays on in the city will die in war or of starvation or disease. But those who go out and surrender to the Babylonians will not be killed; they will at least escape with their life."