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So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

Now, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no more food for the people of the land.

Then, the city was broken up. And all the men of war fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (though the Chaldeans were near the city, all around). And they went by way of the wilderness.

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