Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

The city

Jeremiah 5:10
Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements, for they are not Jehovah's.
Jeremiah 39:2
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was broken into;
Jeremiah 52:6
In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Ezekiel 33:21
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten!

Fled

Leviticus 26:17
And I will set my face against you, that ye may be routed before your enemies; they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Deuteronomy 28:25
Jehovah will give thee up smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out against them one way, and by seven ways shalt thou flee before them; and thou shalt be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.
Jeremiah 39:4
And it came to pass when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled, and went forth 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.

And the king

2 Kings 25:5
And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Ezekiel 12:12
And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth; they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby; he shall cover his face, that he see not the land with his eyes.

General references

Deuteronomy 28:52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
Isaiah 29:3
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts against thee.
Jeremiah 32:4
and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans; for he shall certainly be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
Ezekiel 12:12
And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth; they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby; he shall cover his face, that he see not the land with his eyes.