⁴ And then^[a] in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against Jerusalem, he and all his army. And they laid siege to it, and built siege works^[b] against it all around. ⁵ So the city came under siege^[c] until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

⁶ In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine in the city became severe and there was no food for the people of the land.