Jeremiah 52:5-7

New Living Translation

⁵ Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah’s reign.

⁶ By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign,^[a] the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone. ⁷ Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians,^[b] they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.^[c]