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In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all around.
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The city was under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.
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By the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.
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Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors [fled] by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,
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the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah's entire army was scattered from him.