It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.

The city remained under siege until Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

The Lord also spoke to him when Jehoiakim son of Josiah ruled over Judah, and he continued to speak to him until the fifth month of the eleventh year that Zedekiah son of Josiah ruled over Judah. That was when the people of Jerusalem were taken into exile.