1. Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls round it,
2. and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
3. On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,