2 Kings 25:4

4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city on all sides:) and [the king] went the way towards the plain.

2 Kings 25:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 25:4

(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)

2 Kings 25:4 In-Context

2 And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city on all sides:) and [the king] went the way towards the plain.

5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.

6 So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.