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American Standard Version (ASV):
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.

King James Version (KJV):
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.

American Standard Version (ASV):
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

King James Version (KJV):
And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

American Standard Version (ASV):
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

King James Version (KJV):
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

American Standard Version (ASV):
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 army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

King James Version (KJV):
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.

American Standard Version (ASV):
For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

King James Version (KJV):
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

King James Version (KJV):
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

King James Version (KJV):
Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin’s] father’s brother, king is his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

King James Version (KJV):
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

King James Version (KJV):
And all the men of might, [even] seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all [that were] strong [and] apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

King James Version (KJV):
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, [those] carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.