2 Kings 25:4
And 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.
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Barnes' Notes
The city was broken up - Rather, “broken into,” i. e., A breach was made about midnight in the northern wall Eze 9:2, and an entry effected into the second or lower city (see the 2Ki 22:14 note),…
We left king Zedekiah in rebellion against the king of Babylon (Kg2 24:20), contriving and endeavouring to shake off his yoke, when he was no way able to do it, nor took the right method by making God…
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Cambridge Bible
And the city was broken up R.V. Then a breach was made in the city. The old phrase -broken up" was the same in sense as -broken through". See 2Ch 24:7; Jer 39:7; Mic 2:13; Mat 24:43; Mar 2:4.
We have…
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