Study Desk

^(a)Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, ^(b)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and ^(c)built a siege wall all around ^[a]it.

So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

On the ninth day of the fourth month ^(d)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

^(e)Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside ^(f)the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And ^[b]they went by way of the Arabah.