Holy Scripture
2 Kings 25:2
A church father on this verse
“What think you of Nebuchadnezzar? Have you not heard from Scripture that he was bloodthirsty, fierce, with the disposition of a lion? Have you not heard that he disinterred the kings? Have you not heard that he brought the people away into captivity? Have you not heard that he put the king's sons to the sword before Z…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah on the ninth day of the month.
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1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem; and he encamped against it, and built a mound against it.
— 2 Kings 25:2 —
3And the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went forth by night, by the way of the gate between the walls, this is the gate of the king’s garden: and the Chaldeans were set against the city round about: and the king went by the way of the plain.