² in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)

²¹ Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.