^{6 Ref} In the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath been no bread for the people of the land,

^{7 Ref} then is the city broken up, and all the men of war flee, and go forth from the city by night, the way of the gate between the two walls, that `is' by the king's garden -- and the Chaldeans `are' by the city round about -- and they go the way of the plain.