Now in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no more bread for the people of the land.

Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night, by the [a]way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the King’s garden: (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about) and they went by the way of the wilderness.

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and took Zedekiah in the desert of Jericho, and all the host was scattered from him.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:7 Read Jer. 39:4.

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