2 Kings 25:3-5
Evangelical Heritage Version
3 By the ninth day of the fourth month,[a] famine gripped the city, and the people of the land had no bread.
4 Then the city wall was breached, and all the soldiers fled toward the Arabah through the gate that was between the two walls near the king’s garden, while the Chaldeans[b] were surrounding the city. 5 But the Chaldean army pursued the king. They caught him in the Arabah near Jericho. His whole army was scattered away from him.
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- 2 Kings 25:3 The Hebrew text does not have the word fourth. Jeremiah 52:6 provides the number of the month.
- 2 Kings 25:4 The Chaldeans were the ethnic group that was ruling Babylon at this time.
2 Kings 25:3-5
New International Version
3 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. 4 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] 5 but the Babylonian[d] army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,(D)
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 25:3 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth.
- 2 Kings 25:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 13, 25 and 26
- 2 Kings 25:4 Or the Jordan Valley
- 2 Kings 25:5 Or Chaldean; also in verses 10 and 24
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