1. Then it happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, he and his entire army, arrived against Jerusalem. And they encircled it, and they constructed fortifications all around it.
2. And the city was enclosed and besieged, even until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah,
3. on the ninth day of the month. And a famine prevailed in the city; neither was there bread for the people of the land.