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They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_kings/25-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_kings/25-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_kings/25-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/1.htm">2 Kings</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/25.htm">Chapter 25</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/25-3.htm" title="2 Kings 25:3">◄</a> 2 Kings 25:4 <a href="../2_kings/25-5.htm" title="2 Kings 25:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_kings/25.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_kings/25.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Then a breach was made in the city wall; the king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_kings/25.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />the Babylonian troops broke through the city wall. That same night, Zedekiah and his soldiers tried to escape through the gate near the royal garden, even though they knew the enemy had the city surrounded. They headed toward the desert, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/25.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />the city walls were breached. That night, all the soldiers came to the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden (the Chaldeans had the city surrounded), while the king went toward the Arabah.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.</p><p class="hdg">the city.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/25-27.htm">2 Kings 25:27</a> And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Joachin, king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the seven and twentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin, king of Juda, out of prison.</p><p class="hdg2">.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/5-10.htm">Jeremiah 5:10</a> Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/39-2.htm">Jeremiah 39:2,3</a> And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/52-6.htm">Jeremiah 52:6,7-11</a> And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/33-21.htm">Ezekiel 33:21</a> And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that there came to me one that was fled from Jerusalem, saying: The city is laid waste.</p><p class="hdg">fled.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/26-17.htm">Leviticus 26:17,36</a> I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/28-25.htm">Deuteronomy 28:25</a> The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/32-24.htm">Deuteronomy 32:24,25,30</a> They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/39-4.htm">Jeremiah 39:4-7</a> And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the way of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert. . . . </p><p class="hdg">and the king.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/25-5.htm">2 Kings 25:5</a> And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him were scattered, and left him:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/12-12.htm">Ezekiel 12:12</a> And the prince that is in the midst of them, shall be carried on shoulders, he shall go forth in the dark: they shall dig through the wall to bring him out: his face shall be covered, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/25.htm">Nebuchadnezzar Besieges Jerusalem</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.</span><span class="reftext">5</span>And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him were scattered, and left him:…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/25-5.htm">2 Kings 25:5</a></span><br />And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him were scattered, and left him:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/32-5.htm">2 Chronicles 32:5</a></span><br />He built up also with great diligence all the wall that had been broken down, and built towers upon it, and another wall without: and he repaired Mello in the city of David, and made all sorts of arms and shields:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../nehemiah/3-15.htm">Nehemiah 3:15</a></span><br />And the gate of the fountain, Sellum, the son of Cholhoza, built, lord of the street of Maspha: he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and the walls of the pool of Siloe unto the king's guard, and unto the steps that go down from the city of David.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/22-11.htm">Isaiah 22:11</a></span><br />And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/4-17.htm">Jeremiah 4:17</a></span><br />They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/4-29.htm">Jeremiah 4:29</a></span><br />At the voice of the horsemen, and the archers, all the city is fled away: they have entered into thickets and climbed up the rocks: all the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a man in them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/32-4.htm">Jeremiah 32:4</a></span><br />And Sedecias king of Juda shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans: but he shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon: and he shall speak to him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/34-3.htm">Jeremiah 34:3</a></span><br />And thou shalt not escape out of his hand: but thou shalt surely be taken, and thou shalt be delivered into his hand: and thy eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak with thy mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/38-18.htm">Jeremiah 38:18</a></span><br />But if thou wilt not go out to the princes of the king of Babylon, this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/39-2.htm">Jeremiah 39:2</a></span><br />And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/39-4.htm">Jeremiah 39:4</a></span><br />And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the way of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/44-30.htm">Jeremiah 44:30</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Nechao king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life: as I delivered Sedecias king of Juda into the land of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/52-7.htm">Jeremiah 52:7</a></span><br />And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about,) and they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../lamentations/1-3.htm">Lamentations 1:3</a></span><br />Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling place, because of her affliction, and the greatness of her bondage; she hath dwelt among the nations, and she hath found no rest; all her persecutors have taken her in the midst of straits.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../lamentations/1-6.htm">Lamentations 1:6</a></span><br />Vau. And from the daughter of Sion, all her beauty is departed; her princes are become like rams that find no pastures; and they are gone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/12-4.htm">Ezekiel 12:4</a></span><br />And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture of one that is removing by day in their sight: and thou shalt go forth in the evening in their presence, as one goeth forth that removeth his dwelling.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/12-12.htm">Ezekiel 12:12</a></span><br />And the prince that is in the midst of them, shall be carried on shoulders, he shall go forth in the dark: they shall dig through the wall to bring him out: his face shall be covered, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/12-14.htm">Ezekiel 12:14</a></span><br />And all that are about him, his guards, and his troops I will scatter into every wind: and I will draw out the sword after them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/33-21.htm">Ezekiel 33:21</a></span><br />And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that there came to me one that was fled from Jerusalem, saying: The city is laid waste.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../zechariah/8-19.htm">Zechariah 8:19</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great solemnities: only love ye truth and peace.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div 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