1
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it on all sides.
2
And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3
And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city on all sides:) and [the king] went the way towards the plain.
5
And the army of the Chaldees pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.