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

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.