² The city remained under siege until the eleventh year of the reign of^[a] King Zedekiah. ³ By the ninth day of the fourth^[b] month, the resulting^[c] famine had become so severe in the city that no food remained for the people who lived in the land. ⁴ The city was breached, and the entire army left during the night through the gate that stood between the two walls beside the royal garden, even though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city. They escaped through the Arabah,