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Jeremiah 52:6

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What does Jeremiah 52:6 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “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.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

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.
Jeremiah 52:6 — American Standard Version

Context — Jeremiah 52

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
3For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
5So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6In 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.
7Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king`s garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.
8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
9Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, etc.] The month Tammuzf1095, which answers to part of June and part of July; hence the fast of the fourth month, for the taking of the city, (<380819>Zechariah 8:19); the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land; for the common people; though there might be some in the king’s palace, and in the houses of princes and noblemen, and officers of the army; yet none for the soldiers, and the meaner sort of people; who therefore were disheartened and enfeebled, that they could not defend the city, or hold out any longer: the famine had been before this time, but was now increased to a prodigious…”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“am 3416, bc 588 the fourth: Jer 39:2; Kg2 25:3; Zac 8:19 the famine: Jer 15:2, Jer 19:9, Jer 21:9, Jer 25:10, Jer 38:9; Lev 26:26; Deu 28:52, Deu 28:53, Deu 32:24; Isa 3:1; Lam 4:4-6, Lam 5:10; Eze 4:9-17, Eze 5:10-12, Eze 7:15, Eze 14:21 Jeremiah 52:7”
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