בְּתִשְׁעָ֣ה לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ וַיֶּחֱזַ֥ק הָרָעָ֖ב בָּעִ֑יר וְלֹא־הָ֥יָה לֶ֖חֶם לְעַ֥ם הָאָֽרֶץ׃
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Read commentary on II Kings 25:3, verse-by-verse classical interpretation.