2 Kings 25:2-4

2And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

3By the ninth day of the fourth month,1 the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. 4Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans2 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,3