2 Kings 25:1-4 ▼

1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built turrets against it round about.

2 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

3 On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

4 And the city was broken into; and all the men of war [fled] by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [leads] to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.