3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe+ in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.+ 4 The city wall was broken through,+ and all the soldiers fled by night through the gate between the double wall near the king’s garden, while the Chal·deʹans were surrounding the city; and the king went by the way of the Arʹa·bah.+

6 In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month,+ the famine was severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.+ 7 Finally the city wall was broken through, and all the soldiers fled from the city by night through the gate between the double wall near the king’s garden, while the Chal·deʹans were surrounding the city; and they continued by the way of the Arʹa·bah.+

21 At length in the 12th year, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month of our exile, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me+ and said: “The city has been struck down!”+