4
And the city was broken into; and all the men of war [fled] by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [leads] to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.
2
And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3
On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4
And the city was broken into; and all the men of war [fled] by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [leads] to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.
5
And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
6
And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,
Footnotes 1
[a].
The Arabah: see Josh. 3.16. In ver. 5: 'the parts of the Arabah about Jericho:' so in Jer. 39.5; 52.8.