2 Kings 25:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

⁴ And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden, (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about,) and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.

⁵ And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him were scattered, and left him: