1. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, he and all his army against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: end raised works round about it.
2. And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of king Sedecias,
3. The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.