24 Look! Men have come with siege ramparts to capture the city,+ and because of the sword,+ the famine, and the pestilence,*+ the city will certainly fall into the hands of the Chal·deʹans who are fighting against it; what you said has all happened, as you now see.

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.+