4
Then a breach was made in the city wall; the king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.
2
So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
4
Then a breach was made in the city wall; the king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.
5
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; all his army was scattered, deserting him.
6
Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, who passed sentence on him.
[b].
Gk Compare Jer 39.4; 52.7: Heb lacks [the king] and lacks [fled]
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