1. And it came to be in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar sovereign of Baḇel and all his army came against Yerushalayim and encamped against it, and they built a siege wall against it all around.
2. And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of Sovereign Tsiḏqiyahu.
3. By the ninth of the month the scarcity of food had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.