1. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
3. For through Yahweh’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4. In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
5. So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6. In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.