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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪下 25:4

城終於被攻破了,所有的戰士就在夜間從靠近王的花園的兩牆中間的那門,逃跑出城。那時迦勒底人在四圍攻城;他就往亞拉巴的方向逃走。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jerusalem;   Prophecy;   Walls, of the Cities;   Zedekiah;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Jeremiah, the Book of;   Jordan;   Judea;   Zedekiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Exile;   Gedaliah;   Israel;   Jeremiah;   Jerusalem;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Lamentations;   War;   Zedekiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gardens;   Pharaoh;   Zedekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Garden;   Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Fountain Gate;   Garden;   Gate between the Two Walls;   Riblah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Garden;   Israel;   Jeremiah;   King's Garden;   Lamentations, Book of;   Zedekiah,;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Jerusalem;   Pharaoh;   Riblah;   Zedekiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jeru'salem;   Pha'raoh,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Prophets;   Zedekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Arabah;   Champaign;   Garden;   Garden, the King's;   King's Garden;   Zedekiah (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Arabah;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
城 被 攻 破 , 一 切 兵 丁 就 在 夜 间 从 靠 近 王 园 两 城 中 间 的 门 逃 跑 。 迦 勒 底 人 正 在 四 围 攻 城 , 王 就 向 亚 拉 巴 逃 走 。

Contextual Overview

1 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army during Zedekiah's ninth year as king, on the tenth day of the tenth month. He made a camp around the city and piled dirt against the city walls to attack it. 2 The city was under attack until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king. 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city. There was no food for the people to eat. 4 Then the city was broken into, and the whole army ran away at night through the gate between the two walls by the king's garden. While the Babylonians were still surrounding the city, Zedekiah and his men ran away toward the Jordan Valley. 5 But the Babylonian army chased King Zedekiah and caught up with him in the plains of Jericho. All of his army was scattered from him, 6 so they captured Zedekiah and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah. There he passed sentence on Zedekiah. 7 They killed Zedekiah's sons as he watched. Then they put out his eyes and put bronze chains on him and took him to Babylon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the city: This being the ninth day of the fourth month, corresponded to Wednesday, July 27. Jeremiah 5:10, Jeremiah 39:2, Jeremiah 39:3, Jeremiah 52:6, Jeremiah 52:7-11, Ezekiel 33:21

fled: Leviticus 26:17, Leviticus 26:36, Deuteronomy 28:25, Deuteronomy 32:24, Deuteronomy 32:25, Deuteronomy 32:30, Jeremiah 39:4-7

and the king: 2 Kings 25:5, Ezekiel 12:12

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:45 - break down Leviticus 26:31 - And I will make 2 Chronicles 32:5 - another wall Ezra 4:15 - for which Psalms 79:1 - the heathen Isaiah 22:3 - thy rulers Isaiah 24:10 - city Jeremiah 4:9 - that the heart Jeremiah 4:29 - shall flee Jeremiah 32:4 - General Jeremiah 34:3 - And thou Jeremiah 38:18 - then Jeremiah 40:7 - all the Jeremiah 42:18 - As mine Jeremiah 44:30 - as I Lamentations 1:15 - trodden Lamentations 4:18 - hunt Ezekiel 12:4 - at even Ezekiel 12:5 - Dig thou Ezekiel 12:14 - I will scatter Ezekiel 17:9 - shall he Amos 4:3 - ye shall go Micah 4:10 - shalt thou Zechariah 8:19 - the fourth

Cross-References

Isaiah 60:6
Herds of camels will cover your land, young camels from Midian and Ephah. People will come from Sheba bringing gold and incense, and they will sing praises to the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The city was broken up - Rather, “broken into,” i. e., A breach was made about midnight in the northern wall Ezekiel 9:2, and an entry effected into the second or lower city (see the 2 Kings 22:14 note), which was protected by the wall of Manasseh 2 Chronicles 33:14.

Precipitate flight followed on the advance of the Babylonians to the “middle gate,” or gate of communication between the upper and the lower cities. This position was only a little north of the royal palace, which the king therefore quitted. He escaped by the royal garden at the junction of the Hinnom and Kidron valleys, passing between the two walls which skirted on either side the valley of the Tyropoeon.

Toward the plain - “The Arabah” or the great depression which bounds Palestine Proper on the east (Numbers 21:4 note). The “way toward the Arabah” is here the road leading eastward over Olivet to Bethany and Jericho.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 25:4. 2 Kings 25:2.


 
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