And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,