2. And he did what was evil in Adonai’s eyes, just like all Jehoiakim had done.
3. Because of Adonai’s anger it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that He had them cast out of His presence. So Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4. It came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came—he and all his army—against Jerusalem, and besieged it. They built a siege wall all around it.
5. So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6. In the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city, that there was no food for the people of the land.
7. Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled, going out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was near the king’s garden—even though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They were heading along the way of the Arabah.