2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed.

In the original the number is omitted, probably by the fault of the copyist. It is supplied from Jeremiah 52:6. The month answers to July. The city yielded to famine, an enemy more dreadful than the Chaldean soldiers. Hemmed in on all sides there was no approach for food. The greatness of the suffering may be gathered from Lamentations, Ezekiel here and there, and Joseph us.. third of the people died from famine and the pestilence that broke out. It was when the defenders were dead or weakened by starvation that the Chaldeans broke in.