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. (2 Kings 25:4)
An entrance may have been gained through a breach in the city wall made by battering-rams.
The men of war fled.
The verb “fled” is missing here in the Hebrew, but is in the parallel passage of Jer. 39:4and 52:7.
Between two walls.
The flight was probably made down the Tyropoeon Valley, past the pool of Siloam, which was by the king’s garden (Neh. 3:15), near the junction of the Hinnom and Kidron valleys. A second wall had been built to the south and southwest of the old wall for the protection of the pool of Siloam (see 2 Chron. 32:4, 5; Isa. 22:9-11), and it was probably between this wall and the old wall of Zion that the flight took place.
This would lead down to the Kidron Valley and thence toward the Arabah and the Jordan. See Jerusalem in Israelite Times.