Battle of Jericho - Bible Story and Jericho's Significance
Joel Ryan
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2 Kings 25:4
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Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
2 Kings 25:4 Meaning and Commentary
2 Kings 25:4
(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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2 Kings 25:4 In-Context
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So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
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Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
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Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
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