And the city was broken up, the breach being made on the north side of the outer wall, Jeremiah 39:3, and all the men of war, the soldiers who were defending the city, fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, the outer and the inner wall, which is by the king's garden, in the lower part of the city, for they believed that escape to the south might still be possible; (now the Chaldees were against the city round about, although their lines may not have been so strong on this side;) and the king went the way toward the plain, Jeremiah 39:4, the meadows of the Jordan near Jericho.

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