⁵ It was surrounded until the 11th year of King Zedekiah’s rule.

⁶ By the ninth day of the fourth month, there wasn’t any food left in the city. So the people didn’t have anything to eat. ⁷ Then the Babylonians broke through the city wall. Judah’s whole army ran away. They left the city at night. They went out through the gate between the two walls that were near the king’s garden. They escaped even though the Babylonians surrounded the city. Judah’s army ran toward the Arabah Valley.