^{3 Ref} On the ninth day of the `fourth' month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

^{4 Ref} Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war `fled' by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and `the king' went by the way of the Arabah.