6. By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
7. Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled. They left the city at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians were surrounding the city. They fled towards the Arabah,
8. but the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,
9. and he was captured.He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him.