1. IN THE ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it, and they built siege works against it round about.
2. The city was besieged [nearly two years] until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3. On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was complete in the city; there was no food for the people of the land.
4. Then the city was broken through; the king and all the warriors fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were round about the city. [The king] went by the way toward the Arabah (the plain).
5. The Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him.
6. So they captured Zedekiah and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and sentence was passed on him.