(A)So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. On the ninth day of the (B)fourth month the (C)famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. Then the city was (D)broken into, and all the (E)men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were [a](F)all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:7 Lit against the city on every side