² Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.

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.