2 Kings 25:2-4

New Living Translation

² Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah’s reign.

³ 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. ⁴ Then a section of the city wall was broken down. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians,^[b] the soldiers waited for nightfall and escaped^[c] through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden. Then they headed toward the Jordan Valley.^[d]