Text -- Jeremiah 52:6 (NET)

52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jer 52:6

¹ sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

² tn Heb “the people of the land.”