⁴ Then a breach was made in the city wall;^[a] the king with all the soldiers fled^[b] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.^(A)

² On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin),^(A)

²⁶ on that day, one who has escaped will come to you to report to you the news.