And it came to pass in the (a) ninth year of his reign, in the (b) tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
(a) That is, of Zedekiah.
(b) Which the Hebrews call Teber, and it contains part of December and part of January.