1. Then it happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, he and his entire army, arrived against Jerusalem. And they encircled it, and they constructed fortifications all around it.
2. And the city was enclosed and besieged, even until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah,
3. on the ninth day of the month. And a famine prevailed in the city; neither was there bread for the people of the land.
4. And the city was breached. And all the men of war fled in the night along the way of the gate which is between the double wall at the garden of the king. Now the Chaldeans were besieging the city on all sides. And so Zedekiah fled along the way which leads to the plains of the wilderness.
5. And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. And all the warriors who were with him were dispersed, and they abandoned him.
6. Therefore, having apprehended him, they led the king to the king of Babylon at Riblah. And he was speaking with him in judgment.