Text -- 2 Kings 25:3 (NET)

25:3 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: 2Ki 25:3

¹ tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

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.”