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The city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no bread for the people of the land. Then a breach was made in the city wall, and all the men in the army fled. Since the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, the men left it at night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They fled toward the Arabah,

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