rsv Jeremiah:52:4-7
rsv@Jeremiah:52:4 @ And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and they laid siege to it and built siegeworks against it round about.
rsv@Jeremiah:52:5 @ So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah.
rsv@Jeremiah:52:6 @ On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city, that there was no food for the people of the land.
rsv@Jeremiah:52:7 @ Then a breach was made in the city; and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, while the Chalde'ans were round about the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.