King James Version (KJV)
2 Kings 25:4
“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 round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 25
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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.
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 round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
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The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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