1
It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.