Jeremiah 52:5-6
52:5 The city remained under siege until Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month 1 the famine in the city was so severe the residents 2 had no food.
1 sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.
2 tn Heb “the people of the land.”