2 Kings 25:4 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | ASV

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 round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

The city was broken up - Rather, “broken into,” that is, a breach was made around midnight in the northern wall (Ezekiel 9:2), a…

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

Broken up. —Compare 2 Chronicles 32:1. A breach was made in the wall with battering-rams, such as are depicted in the …

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:1)

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

Jerusalem was so fortified that it could not be taken until famine rendered the besieged unable to resist. In the prophecy and Lamentations of Jere…