25 ¹ so on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah’s^[a] reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his entire army approached Jerusalem, attacked it, encamped against it, and built a siege wall that surrounded the city. ² The city remained under siege until the eleventh year of the reign of^[b] King Zedekiah. ³ By the ninth day of the fourth^[c] month, the resulting^[d] famine had become so severe in the city that no food remained for the people who lived in the land.