| Jeremiah 39:4
| And when Sedecias, the king of Juda, and all the men of war, saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city, by the way of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert.
| Walls. This gate had not yet been seized, (Calmet) leading to Jericho, ver. 5. (Haydock) (Ezechiel 12:4.) --- Roman Septuagint passes over the next 12 verses, which seem to be taken from 4 Kings 25:4. (Calmet) --- Grabe supplies ver. 4. to 13., inclusively. "And they sent," etc., which is well connected with ver. 3. --- The possession of one gate would let all the army enter: whereupon Sedecias fled by a postern gate. (Worthington)
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