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2 Kings 25:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the city was broken into,  and all the warriors fled  at night by way of the city gate between the two walls near the king’s garden,  even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,

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In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, ‘The city has been taken! ’


The prince who is among  them will lift his bags to his shoulder in the dark and go out. They  will dig through the wall to bring him out through it. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.


Go up among her vineyard terraces and destroy them, but do not finish them off. Prune away her shoots, for they do not belong to the  Lord.


Shallun  son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate.  He rebuilt it and roofed it. Then he installed its doors, bolts, and bars. He also made repairs to the wall of the Pool of Shelah  near the king’s garden,  as far as the stairs that descend from the city of David.


the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army left him and scattered.


How could one pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the  Lord had given them up?


The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions.  You will be an object of horror  to all the kingdoms of the earth.


‘I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.


I will turn  against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.


Then Hezekiah strengthened his position by rebuilding the entire broken-down wall  and heightening the towers and the other outside wall.  He repaired the supporting terraces  of the city of David, and made an abundance of weapons and shields.


You made a reservoir between the walls  for the water of the ancient pool,  but you did not look to the one who made it, or consider the one who created it long ago.


They have her surrounded like those who guard a field, because she has rebelled against me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and the archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.


King Zedekiah of Judah will not escape from the Chaldeans; indeed, he will certainly be handed over to Babylon’s king. They will speak face to face  and meet eye to eye.


As for you, you will not escape  from him but are certain to be captured and handed over to him. You will meet the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak face to face;  , you will go to Babylon.


But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city will be handed over to the Chaldeans.  They will burn it, and you yourself will not escape from them.” ’


This is what the Lord says: I am about to hand over Pharaoh Hophra,  Egypt’s king, to his enemies, to those who intend to take his life, just as I handed over Judah’s King Zedekiah  to Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar, who was his enemy, the one who intended to take his life.” ’


Judah has gone into exile following  affliction and harsh slavery; she lives among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in narrow places.


All the splendour  has vanished from Daughter Zion. Her leaders are like stags that find no pasture; they stumble away exhausted before the hunter.


During the day, bring out your bags like an exile’s bags while they look on. Then in the evening go out in their sight like those going into exile.


I will also scatter all the attendants who surround him and all his troops to every direction of the wind,  and I will draw a sword to chase after them.


The Lord of Armies says this: ‘The fast of the fourth month,  the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth  will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.’


All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together; they had fled far away.





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