1. So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem with his entire army. He camped beside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
2. The city was under attack until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
3. On the ninth day of the month, the famine in the city got so bad that no food remained for the common people.
4. Then the enemy broke into the city. All the soldiers fled by night using the gate between the two walls near the King’s Garden. The Chaldeans were surrounding the city, so the soldiers ran toward the desert plain.
5. But the Chaldean army chased King Zedekiah and caught up with him in the Jericho plains. His entire army deserted him.