On the ninth day of the (A)fourth month the (B)famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. Then the city was (C)breached, and all the (D)warriors fled and left the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were [a](E)all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and (F)overtook Zedekiah in the [b]desert plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:7 Lit against the city on every side
  2. Jeremiah 52:8 Heb Arabah

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