2 Kings 25:4
What does 2 Kings 25:4 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Kings 25:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Then 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Then 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862then the city is broken up, and all the men of war <FI>go<Fi> by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that <FI>are<Fi> by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans <FI>are<Fi> against the city round about, and <FI>the king<Fi> goeth the way of the plain.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the city was broken into; and all the men of war [fled] by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [leads] to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:25
Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Ezekiel 33:21
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
- Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall bewasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
- Jeremiah 52:6
In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
- Jeremiah 39:2
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),
- 2 Kings 25:5
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.