And the city was broken into, 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 next to the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
And they went after them to the Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
In that day a man shall throw his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
And the prince that is among them shall carry upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go out: they shall dig through the wall to carry their things out thereby: he shall cover his face, so that he does not see the ground with his eyes.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a sudden end of all those who dwell in the land.