1. In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his whole army advanced against Jerusalem, encamped around it, and built siege walls on every side.
2. The siege of the city continued until the eleventh year of Zedekiah.
3. On the ninth day of the month, when famine had gripped the city, and the people of the land had no more food,
4. the city walls were breached. That night, all the soldiers came to the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden (the Chaldeans had the city surrounded), while the king went toward the Arabah.