2 Kings 25:3-5

3By the ninth day of the fourth Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth. month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. 4Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians Or Chaldeans; also in verses 13, 25 and 26 were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah, Or the Jordan Valley 5but the Babylonian Or Chaldean; also in verses 10 and 24 army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,