Judah's Revolt Against the King of Babylon

Zedekiah rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses in a large army. The siege begins in January of 588 BC, and it ends in July 586 BC. Over the 18 months of the siege, famine conditions become severe in the city. After all of the forewarning, the actual judgment comes upon Judah as a sort of formality. Its fight is futile. Nothing can save Judah now. There is an inexorable movement from Nebuchdnezzar setting up the siege works to the final fall of the city of Jerusalem.