^4 (A)Now it came about 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 army, against Jerusalem, 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 slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.