1. Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. This happened during Zedekiah’s ninth year, tenth month and tenth day as king. He made a camp around the city. Then he built devices all around the city walls to attack it.
2. The city was under attack until Zedekiah’s eleventh year as king.
3. By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city. There was no food for the people to eat.
4. Then the city wall was broken through. And the whole army ran away at night. They went through the gate between the two walls by the king’s garden. The Babylonians were still surrounding the city. Zedekiah and his men ran toward the Jordan Valley.