³ On the ninth day of the fourth month ^(A)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. ^4 (B)Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside ^(C)the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And ^[a]they went by way of the Arabah.

² in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was ^(A)breached.