1 Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal; she was a daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
2 He did evil in the Lord’s eyes just as Jehoiachin had done.
3 It was because the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and Judah that he thrust them out of his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 In the ninth year, the tenth month, and the tenth day of the month, Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem with all of his army. He camped beside the city and built a siege wall around it.
5 The city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city reached a point that no food remained for the people.