^4 (A)Now it happened in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem, and they camped against it and built a ^(B)siege wall all around ^[a]it.

²² Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to ^(A)set battering rams, to open the mouth ^[a]for killing, to lift up the voice with a shout of war, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.