Jeremiah 52:5-7

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⁵ And the city was under ·attack [siege] until Zedekiah’s eleventh year as king [^C586 bc].

⁶ By the ninth day of the fourth month [^CJuly 18], the ·hunger [famine] was ·terrible [severe] in the city; there was no food for the people to eat. ⁷ Then the city wall was ·broken through [breeched], and the whole army [^Cof Judah] ·ran away [fled] at night. They left the city through the gate between the two walls by the king’s garden. Even though the ·Babylonians [^LChaldeans] were surrounding the city, Zedekiah and his men headed toward the ·Jordan Valley [^LArabah].