1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah, and she was from Libnah.
2 Zedekiah did what the Lord said was wrong, just as Jehoiakim had done.
3 All this happened in Jerusalem and Judah because the Lord was angry with them. Finally, he threw them out of his presence.Zedekiah turned against the king of Babylon.
4 Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They made a camp around the city and built devices all around the city walls to attack it. This happened on Zedekiah’s ninth year, tenth month, and tenth day as king.
5 And the city was under attack until Zedekiah’s eleventh year as king.
6 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city; there was no food for the people to eat.