Lam 4:12 | TNotes | STEP | 4:12 Not a king ... could march through the gates of Jerusalem: Since God had delivered Jerusalem from Sennacherib of Assyria more than a century earlier (2 Kgs 19:36-37 ), Judeans had strongly believed that not even the mightiest king, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, could defeat the city.

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‏ Lamentations 4:12

4:12 ^a Not a king ... could march through the gates of Jerusalem: Since God had delivered Jerusalem from Sennacherib of Assyria more than a century earlier (2 Kgs 19:36-37 ^b), Judeans had strongly believed that not even the mightiest king, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, could defeat the city.