³ By the ninth day of the fourth^[a] month the famine^(A) in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. ⁴ Then the city wall was broken through,^(B) and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians^[b] were surrounding^(C) the city. They fled toward the Arabah,^{[c] 5} but the Babylonian^[d] army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,^(D)