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 common people had no food.(A) Then the city was broken into,(B) and all the warriors fled(C) at night by way of the city 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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The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

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. 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]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:3 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth.
  2. 2 Kings 25:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 13, 25 and 26
  3. 2 Kings 25:4 Or the Jordan Valley