^{3 Ref} Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

^{4 Ref} So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.