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The city was broken up by the Chaldeans, who broke and entered the gate, Jer_39:3.
The men of war fled; which word is fitly supplied out of the parallel place, Jer_39:4, or out of the following verb, went away.
Between two walls; between the outward and inward wall of the city, by a private way, having the advantage of the darkness of the night, and possibly of some vault under the ground. The king: this word also is necessarily to be understood; partly by its singular, which agrees not with the men of war; and partly out of the next verse, where it is expressed.
Toward the plain of Jericho, as it follows.