The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.

He said, "Which way shall we go up?" He answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom."

So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house. She was slain there.

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.