2 Kings 25:1-4 ▼

1 And it comes to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has come, he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encamps against it, and builds a surrounding fortification against it.

2 And the city enters into siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

3 On the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, then there has not been bread for the people of the land.

4 And the city is broken up, and all the men of war [go] by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that [are] by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [are] against the city all around, and [the king] goes the way of the plain.