³ 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.^{(A) 4} Then the city was broken into,^(B) and all the warriors fled^(C) by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden,^(D) even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,^(E)

² In the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.