¹⁸ So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

¹ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the 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.