Jeremiah 52:4-6

New Living Translation

⁴So on January 15,^[a] during the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar^[b] of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls. ⁵Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah’s reign.

⁶By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign,^[c] the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.

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Footnotes

52:4a Hebrew on the tenth day of the tenth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of events in Jeremiah can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Babylonian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This day was January 15, 588 B.c.
52:4b Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar; also in 52:12, 28, 29, 30.
52:6 Hebrew By the ninth day of the fourth month [in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign]. This day was July 18, 586 B.c.; also see note on 52:4a.