¹⁵ All the troops with Joab came and besieged Sheba in Abel Beth Maakah.^(A) They built a siege ramp^(B) up to the city, and it stood against the outer fortifications. While they were battering the wall to bring it down,

⁴ So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth^(A) day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem^(B) with his whole army. They encamped outside the city and built siege works^(C) all around it.^(D)

⁸ He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works^(A) against you, build a ramp^(B) up to your walls and raise his shields against you.