2Ki_25:3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Ver. 3. The famine prevailed in the city.] Insomuch as that the fathers did eat their sons, and the sons their fathers. {Eze_5:10 Lam_4:10} The pestilence also prevailed at the same time. {Jer_21:6-7; Jer_24:10}