Jeremiah 52:6

52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

Jeremiah 52:33

52:33 Jehoiachin ³  took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

[52:6]  ¹ sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

[52:6]  ² tn Heb “the people of the land.”

[52:33]  ³ tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.