2 Kings 25:1-3

Contemporary English Version

Jerusalem Is Captured and Destroyed

(2 Chronicles 36.17-21; Jeremiah 52.3-30)

25 ^(A) In Zedekiah's ninth year as king, on the tenth day of the tenth month,^[a] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia led his entire army to attack Jerusalem. The troops set up camp outside the city and built ramps up to the city walls.

^2-3 After a year and a half, all the food in Jerusalem was gone. Then on the ninth day of the fourth^[b] month,