3 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
2 Kings 25:3
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Jeremiah 52:5–7
5 And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. 6 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. 7 Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the ci…
1 Maccabees 13:48–50
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Acts 7:10–12
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