3 On the ninth day of the ^hfourth month the ⁱfamine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the ^jtwo walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

2 In the ^meleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

6 On the ninth day of the fourth month the ^ffamine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the ^gtwo walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.