The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.(A) Then the city was broken into,(B) and all the warriors fled(C) by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden,(D) even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,(E)

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