Verse 4

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 Chaldeans were against the city all around:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Byens mur ble brutt, og kongen med alle soldatene flyktet i løpet av natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene ved kongens hage, selv om kaldeerne hadde omringet byen. De dro mot Arabah.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Byen ble brutt opp, og alle krigerne flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene, ved kongens hage, mens kaldeerne omringet byen; kongen drog mot slettene.

• Norsk King James

  Byen ble brutt opp, og alle krigsmennene flyktet om natten langs veien ved porten mellom to murer ved kongens hage. Kaldéerne var rundt byen, og kongen gikk mot slettene.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Da ble det laget et gjennombrudd i byen, og krigerne flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene som vender mot kongens hage, mens kaldeerne omringet byen. Og kongen dro veien til ødemarken.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Da ble en åpning gjort i bymuren, og alle krigerne flyktet om natten på en vei mellom de to murene ved kongens hage, mens kaldeerne omringet byen. Kongen flyktet da mot Araba-området.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Byen ble brutt opp, og alle krigerne flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene, som er ved kongens hage. (Kaldeerne omringet byen.) Og kongen flyktet mot sletten.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Byen ble ødelagt, og alle krigsfolk flyktet om natten via porten som lå mellom to murer, ved siden av kongens hage (for kaldeerne hadde beleiret byen rundt omkring), og kongen dro ut mot slettene.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Byen ble brutt opp, og alle krigerne flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene, som er ved kongens hage. (Kaldeerne omringet byen.) Og kongen flyktet mot sletten.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Da ble byen brutt opp, og alle krigerne flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene ved kongens hage. Mens kaldeerne var rundt byen, dro de ut på veien mot Araba.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Then the city wall was breached, and all the warriors fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were surrounding the city. They escaped toward the Arabah.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "2 Kings.25.4", "source": "וַתִּבָּקַ֣ע הָעִ֗יר וְכָל־אַנְשֵׁ֨י הַמִּלְחָמָ֤ה ׀ הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ דֶּ֜רֶךְ שַׁ֣עַר ׀ בֵּ֣ין הַחֹמֹתַ֗יִם אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־גַּ֣ן הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְכַשְׂדִּ֥ים עַל־הָעִ֖יר סָבִ֑יב וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ דֶּ֥רֶךְ הָעֲרָבָֽה׃", "text": "*wə-tibbāqaʿ* the *ʿîr* and all *ʾanšê* the *milḥāmâ* the *laylâ* *derek* *šaʿar* between the *ḥōmōtayim* *ʾăšer* upon *gan* the *melek* and *kaśdîm* against the *ʿîr* around, and *yēlek* *derek* the *ʿărāḇâ*.", "grammar": { "*wə-tibbāqaʿ*": "conjunction + consecutive imperfect, 3rd feminine singular, niphal stem - and was broken into/breached", "*ʿîr*": "noun, feminine singular with definite article - the city", "*ʾanšê*": "noun, masculine plural construct - men of", "*milḥāmâ*": "noun, feminine singular with definite article - the war/battle", "*laylâ*": "noun, masculine singular with definite article - the night", "*derek*": "noun, masculine singular construct - way of/path of", "*šaʿar*": "noun, masculine singular - gate", "*ḥōmōtayim*": "noun, feminine dual with definite article - the two walls", "*ʾăšer*": "relative pronoun - which/that", "*gan*": "noun, masculine singular - garden", "*melek*": "noun, masculine singular with definite article - the king", "*kaśdîm*": "proper noun, masculine plural - Chaldeans", "*yēlek*": "consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he went", "*ʿărāḇâ*": "noun, feminine singular with definite article - the plain/desert" }, "variants": { "*tibbāqaʿ*": "was breached/broken through/split open", "*ʾanšê* *milḥāmâ*": "men of war/fighting men/warriors", "*ḥōmōtayim*": "double wall/two walls", "*kaśdîm*": "Chaldeans/Babylonians", "*ʿărāḇâ*": "plain/desert/Arabah valley" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Byens mur ble brutt gjennom, og alle krigerne flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene ved kongens hage, selv om kaldeerne omringet byen, og de dro mot Arabah.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og man brød ind i Staden, og alle Krigsmænd (flyede) om Natten ad den Ports Vei imellem de to Mure, som gaaer til Kongens Have, og Chaldæerne laae trindt omkring Staden; og Kongen drog hen ad Veien til den slette Mark.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And the city was broken up, 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 against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Byen ble brutt opp, og alle krigsmennene flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene ved kongens hage, mens kaldeerne omringet byen. Da rømte kongen langs veien til sletten.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Da ble det laget et gjennombrudd i byen, og alle krigsfolkene flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene, ved kongens hage (nå var kaldeerne rundt byen); og kongen dro mot Araba.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Da ble byens mur brutt gjennom, og alle stridsmennene flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene ved kongens hage, mens kaldeerne omringet byen, og kongen flyktet på veien til sletten.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Da ble det laget en åpning i byen, og alle krigerne flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene, som lå ved kongens hage (mens kaldeerne omringet byen); og kongen dro i retning av Araba.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Da ble det laget en åpning i bymuren, og alle krigsmennene flyktet om natten gjennom porten mellom de to murene som var ved kongens hage; (nå var kaldeerne rundt byen:) og kongen dro mot Arabah.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And the cite was broken vp, & all the men of warre fled in the night by the waye of the porte betwene the two walles, which goeth to the kynges garde. But the Caldees laye aboute the cite. And he fled by the waye to the playne felde.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then the citie was broken vp, and all the men of warre fled by night, by the way of the gate, which is betweene two walles that was by the Kings garden: nowe the Caldees were by the citie round about: and the King went by the way of the wildernesse.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And the citie was broken vp, and all the men of armes fled by night by a way through a gate which is betweene two walles by the kinges garden (the Chaldees lying about the citie:) And the king went the way toward the playne.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And the city was broken up, 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] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  then the city is broken up, and all the men of war `go' by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that `are' by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans `are' against the city round about, and `the king' goeth the way of the plain.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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 around it); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The enemy broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden.(The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the rift valley.

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 33:21 : 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is struck.
• Lev 26:17 : 17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: those that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.
• Lev 26:36 : 36 And upon those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.
• Deut 28:25 : 25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
• Deut 32:24-25 : 24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.
• Deut 32:30 : 30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up?
• 2 Kgs 25:5 : 5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army scattered from him.
• Neh 3:15 : 15 But the fountain gate was repaired by Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, covered it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that descend from the city of David.
• Jer 5:10 : 10 Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
• Jer 39:2-7 : 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into. 3 Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate: Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. 4 And it happened that when Zedekiah, the king of Judah, saw them and all the men of war, they fled and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls; and he went out the way of the plain. 5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him. 6 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes; also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah. 7 Moreover, he blinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with chains to carry him to Babylon.
• Jer 52:6-9 : 6 And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were all around the city:) and they went by the way of the plain. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment upon him. 10 And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
• Ezek 12:12 : 12 And the prince who is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out through it: he shall cover his face, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.