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When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
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Verse 4. Walls. This gate had not yet been seized, ( Calmet.) leading to Jericho. verse 5. Bible. Ezekiel 12:4.—Septuagint Rom. passes over the next 12 verses, which seem to be taken from 4 Kennicott. 25:4. Calmet.—Grabe supplies verse 4 to 13 inclusively. “And they sent,” and so forth which is well connected with verse 3.—The possession of one gate would let all the army enter: whereupon Sedecias fled by a postern gate. Worthington.
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