2 Kings 25:1-3 ▼

1 Now in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he with all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it and built siege works surrounding it.

2 The city came under siege [for nearly two years] until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine [caused by the siege] was severe in the city; there was no food for the people of the land.