(A)Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls that were beside (B)the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And [a]they went by way of the Arabah.

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  1. 2 Kings 25:4 As in some mss and ancient versions; MT he

Then the city wall was broken through,(A) and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians[a] were surrounding(B) the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 13, 25 and 26
  2. 2 Kings 25:4 Or the Jordan Valley