Jeremías 39:4

4 Cuando el rey Sedequías y todos los soldados vieron que los babilonios habían invadido la ciudad, huyeron. Esperaron hasta la caída del sol y entonces se deslizaron por la puerta que está entre las dos murallas, detrás del jardín real, y se dirigieron al valle del Jordán.

Jeremías 39:4 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 39:4

And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah
saw them, and all the men of war
That is, when Zedekiah and his soldiers saw the princes and generals of the Chaldean army enter the city through a breach made in the wall, and take possession of the middle gate; which they might see from some high tower where they were for safety, and to make their observation of the enemy: then they fled;
finding they were not able to keep their posts and resist the enemy: and went forth out of the city by night;
it being the middle of the night, as before observed out of Josephus, that the city was taken; and they took the advantage of the darkness of the night to make their escape: this they chose rather to do than to surrender to the Chaldeans, and lie at their mercy: and they went by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls;
which lay either between the wall of the city and the outworks, as some; or between the old wall and the new one Hezekiah built, ( 2 Chronicles 32:5 ) ; as others; or rather between the wall of the city and the wall of the king's garden; this being a private way, they took it. The Jews have a fable, and which is related both by Jarchi and Kimchi, that there was a cave or vault underground, from the king's house to the plains of Jericho; and by this way the king went that he might not be seen; but God prepared a hind, which the Chaldean army saw, and pursued, and which went into the cave, add they after it; and when they were at the mouth of the cave they saw Zedekiah coming out of it, and took him: and he went out the way of the plain;
on the south side of the which led to Jericho; and on which side the kings garden was; not that he went alone, but his wives, and children, and princes, and men of war with him; see ( Jeremiah 52:7 ) .

Jeremías 39:4 In-Context

2 Dos años y medio más tarde, el 18 de julio
del año once del reinado de Sedequías, los babilonios abrieron una brecha en la muralla y la ciudad cayó.

3 Todos los oficiales del ejército babilónico entraron y, en señal de su triunfo, se sentaron en la puerta Central: Nergal-sarezer de Samgar y Nebo-sarsequim,
un oficial principal, Nergal-sarezer, consejero del rey, y todos los demás oficiales.

4 Cuando el rey Sedequías y todos los soldados vieron que los babilonios habían invadido la ciudad, huyeron. Esperaron hasta la caída del sol y entonces se deslizaron por la puerta que está entre las dos murallas, detrás del jardín real, y se dirigieron al valle del Jordán.

5 Sin embargo, las tropas babilónicas
persiguieron al rey y lo capturaron en las llanuras de Jericó. Entonces lo llevaron ante el rey Nabucodonosor de Babilonia, que se encontraba en Ribla, en la tierra de Hamat. Allí el rey de Babilonia dictó sentencia contra Sedequías.

6 Hizo que Sedequías presenciara la masacre de sus hijos y de todos los nobles de Judá.