2 Kings 25:2-4

Christian Standard Bible

² The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

³ By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.^{(A) 4} 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)