2 Kings 25:1-4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Nebuchadnezzar’s Siege of Jerusalem

25 In the ninth year^(A) of Zedekiah’s reign,^(B) on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army.^(C) They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all around.^{(D) 2} The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

³ By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.^{(E) 4} Then the city was broken into,^(F) and all the warriors fled^(G) by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden,^(H) even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,^(I)