2 Kings 25:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 25:4

2 Kings 25:4. The city was broken up It was taken by storm, the besiegers having made a breach in the wall, at which they forced their way into it. All the men of war fled Being unable any longer to defend the city, they endeavoured to quit it, which many of them found means to do by the way of the gate between the two walls That is, between the inward and outward walls of the city, or between the wall and the outworks, by a private way, having the advantage of the darkness of the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 25:1-21

The destruction of Jerusalem (24:18-25:21)All Judah’s most capable administrators had been taken captive to Babylon. The few advisers who were left to Zedekiah had no true understanding of the situation, either political or religious, and persuaded the weak king to seek Egypt’s help in rebelling against Babylon. This was a policy that Jeremiah clearly saw was disastrous, for it would lead only to the horrors of siege and destruction. His advice was that Judah accept its fate as God’s will and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 25:4

broken up = breached. Before this an Egyptian force approached and the Babylonians retired (Jeremiah 37:5-11 ). The relief was only temporary, as predicted. fled. Some codices, with Syriac, read "the men of war fled, and went forth by night". Compare Jeremiah 39:4 ; Jer 62:7 . two = the two. now. Note Figure of speech Parenthesis. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 25:4

THE SIEGE ENDED; AND ZEDEKIAH WAS CAPTURED AND TAKEN TO RIBLAH"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. 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. Then they took the king, and carried him up unto... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 25:4

2 Kings 25:4. The men of war fled by night— It is difficult to conceive how the besieged could make their escape, as the Chaldees had encompassed the city. Josephus indeed gives us this account, that as the city was taken about midnight, the captains with the rest of the soldiers went directly into the temple; which Zedekiah perceiving, he took his wives, children, commanders, and friends, and they all slipped away together by a narrow passage towards the wilderness; but then what this narrow... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 25:4

4. the city was broken up—that is, a breach was effected, as we are elsewhere informed, in a part of the wall belonging to the lower city (2 Chronicles 32:5; 2 Chronicles 33:14). the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden—The king's garden was (2 Chronicles 33:14- :) at the pool of Siloam, that is, at the mouth of the Tyropæon. A trace of the outermost of these walls appears to be still extant in the rude pathway which crosses the mouth... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 25:1-30

The Fall of JerusalemThis chapter relates the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the capture of king Zedekiah, and the deportation of most of the Jewish people.1. In the tenth day] The successive stages in the overthrow of the city are carefully marked by the historian: cp. 2 Kings 25:3, 2 Kings 25:8. Forts] perhaps movable towers for throwing troops upon the walls.3. The famine] the sufferings of the besieged are described in Jeremiah 21:7-9; Lamentations 4:8; Lamentations 5:10.4. The city... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 25:4

(4) Broken up.—Comp. 2 Chronicles 32:1. A breach was made in the wall with battering-rams, such as are depicted in the Assyrian sculptures. The Chaldæans forced their entry on the north side of the city, i.e., they took the Lower City (2 Kings 22:14). This is clear from Jeremiah 39:3, where it is said that, after effecting an entrance, their generals proceeded to assault “the middle gate,” i.e., the gate in the north wall of Zion, which separated the upper from the lower city. (See also 2 Kings... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 25:1-7

20ZEDEKIAH, THE LAST KING OF JUDAHB.C. 597-5862 Kings 24:18-20; 2 Kings 25:1-7"Quand ce grand Dieu a choisi quelqu’un pour etre l’instrument de ses desseins rien n’arrete le cours, en enchaine, ou il aveugle, ou il dompte tout ce qui est capable de resistance."- BOSSUET, "Oraison funebre de Henriette Marie."WHEN Jehoiachin was carried captive to Babylon, never to return, his uncle Mattaniah ("Jehovah’s gift"), the third son of Josiah, was put by Nebuchadrezzar in his place. In solemn... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 25:1-21

THE FALL OF JERUSALEMB.C. 5862 Kings 25:1-21"In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all nations."- Zechariah 12:3"An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee: behold the end is come."- Ezekiel 7:6"Behold yon sterile spot Where now the wandering Arab’s tent Flaps in the desert blast; There once old Salem’s haughty fane Reared high to heaven its thousand golden domes, And in the blushing face of day Exposed its shameful glory."- SHELLEYAFTER the siege had lasted for... read more

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