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2 Kings 25:4
“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 around it); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 25
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
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 around it); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
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.
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
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The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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