^4 (A)Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it, and built a ^[a](B)bulwark all around ^[b]it.

²² Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to ^(A)set up battering rams, to open the mouth ^[a]for ^[b]slaughter, to raise the voice with a battle cry, to set up battering rams against the gates, to pile up assault ramps, to build a siege wall.