Jer 52:6 | NET2full | STEP | By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food .

Jeremiah 52:6

6 By the ninth day of the fourth month ^{▼▼sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.} the famine in the city was so severe the residents ^{▼▼tn Heb “the people of the land.”} had no food.