^{3 Ref} on the ninth of the month -- when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,

^{4 Ref} then the city is broken up, and all the men of war `go' by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that `are' by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans `are' against the city round about, and `the king' goeth the way of the plain.