The people — For the common people, but only for the great men. Now they eat their own children for want of food, Lamentations 4:3, &c. Jeremiah in this extremity, earnestly persuaded the king to surrender; but his heart was hardened to his destruction.
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2 Kings 25:3
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.