3 The has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the of 2 Kgs 25:3. According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.
4 Heb “the people of the land.”

In other versions

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.

By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.

In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.

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.

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