2 Kings 25:1-3

Nebuchadnezzar Besieges Jerusalem

^aNow in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, ^bNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem, and he camped against it and ^cbuilt a siege wall all around ¹it. 2 So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month ^athe famine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.