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Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, marched with his army to attack Jerusalem. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month, in the ninth year when Zedekiah had ruled Judah. His soldiers made their camp all around the city. They built heaps of earth all around Jerusalem's walls. Babylon's army stayed around the city until the 11th year that Zedekiah had been king.

By the ninth day of the fourth month there was a very bad famine in the city. There was no food for the people to eat.

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