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So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no bread for the common people.

Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled by night by the way of the gate between the double walls near the king’s garden—though the Chaldeans were all around the city—and they went by the way to the Arabah.

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