On the ninth day of the fourth month (A)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. (B)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 (C)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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Footnotes

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

By the ninth day of the fourth[a] month the famine(A) in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. Then the city wall was broken through,(B) and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians[b] were surrounding(C) the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:3 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth.
  2. 2 Kings 25:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 13, 25 and 26
  3. 2 Kings 25:4 Or the Jordan Valley

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.

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in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was (A)breached.

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And on the ninth day of the fourth(A) month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city wall(B) was broken through.(C)

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And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

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