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Myles Coverdale Bible

Ezekiel 12:5

Dygge thorow the wall, that they maye se, and beare thorow it the same thinge, that thou tokest vp

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ezekiel;   Instruction;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Houses;   Prophets;   Walls;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - House;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - House;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Thief ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As they watch, dig through the wall and take the bags out through it.
Hebrew Names Version
Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
King James Version
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
English Standard Version
In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it.
New American Standard Bible
"Dig a hole through the wall in their sight and go out through it.
New Century Version
Dig a hole through the wall while they watch, and bring your things out through it.
Amplified Bible
"Dig through the wall as they watch and go out through the hole.
World English Bible
Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and cary out thereby.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Dig a hole through the wall in their sight and go out through it.
Legacy Standard Bible
In their sight, dig a hole through the wall and go out through it.
Berean Standard Bible
While they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
Contemporary English Version
Dig through the wall of your house and crawl out, carrying the bag with you. Make sure everyone is watching.
Complete Jewish Bible
Dig a hole through the wall while they watch, and carry [your belongings] out through it.
Darby Translation
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Easy-to-Read Version
While the people are watching, make a hole in the wall and go out through that hole in the wall.
George Lamsa Translation
Make a breach through the wall in their sight and go forth through it.
Good News Translation
While they are watching, break a hole through the wall of your house and take your pack out through it.
Lexham English Bible
Before their eyes dig through for yourself, through the wall, and you must bring the baggage out through it.
Literal Translation
Before their eyes dig for yourself through the wall, and carry out through it.
American Standard Version
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Bible in Basic English
Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
King James Version (1611)
Digge thou through the wall in their sight, and cary out thereby.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Digge through the wall in their sight, and cary out therby.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Dig for thyself into the wall of the house, and thou shalt pass through it in their sight:
English Revised Version
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bifore the iyen of hem digge the wal to thee, and thou
Update Bible Version
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Webster's Bible Translation
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
New English Translation
While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
New King James Version
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your belongings out through it.
New Living Translation
Dig a hole through the wall while they are watching and go out through it.
New Life Bible
While they watch, dig a hole through the wall and go out through it.
New Revised Standard
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry the baggage through it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Before their eyes, break thou forth by thyself through the wall, - and carry forth through it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it.
Revised Standard Version
Dig through the wall in their sight, and go out through it.
Young's Literal Translation
Before their eyes dig for thee through the wall, and thou hast brought forth by it.

Contextual Overview

1 The worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: 2 Thou sonne of ma, thou dwellest in the myddest of a frauwerde housholde: which haue eyes to se, & yet se not: eares haue they to heare, and yet heare they not, for they are an obstinate housholde. 3 Therfore (O thou sonne of man) make thy gere redy to flit, and go forth by fayre daye light, yt they maye se. Yee eue in their sight shalt thou go from thy place to another place: yf peraduenture they wil considre, yt they be an vnobedient housholde. 4 Thy gere that thou hast made redy to flit withall, shalt thou beare out by fayre daye light, that they maie se: & thou yi self shalt go forth also at eue in their sight, as a ma doth whe he flitteth. 5 Dygge thorow the wall, that they maye se, and beare thorow it the same thinge, that thou tokest vp 6 in their sight. As for thy self, thou shalt go forth in the darcke. Hyde thy face that thou se not ye earth, for I haue made the a shewtoke vnto the house of Israel. 7 Now as ye LORDE comaunded me, so I dyd: ye gere that I had made redy, brought I out by daye. At euen I brake downe an hole thorow the wall with my honde: & when it was darcke, I toke the gere vpo my shulders, and bare them out in their sight. 8 And in the mornynge, came the worde of the LORDE vnto me, sayenge: 9 Thou sonne of man, yf Israel, yt frauwerde housholde axe the, and saye: what dost thou there? 10 Then tell them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: This punyshment toucheth the chefe rulers at Ierusalem, and all the house of Israel, that dwell amonge them:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Dig thou: Heb. Dig for thee, This was to shew that Zedekiah should escape from the city through a breach in the wall. 2 Kings 25:4, Jeremiah 39:2-4

Reciprocal: Job 24:16 - In the dark Amos 4:3 - ye shall go

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
And ye Coastes of ye Cananites were fro Sido forth thorow Gerar vnto Gasa, tyll thou comest vnto Sodoma, Gomorra, Adama, Zeboim, & vnto Lasa.
Genesis 11:31
Then toke Terah Abra his sonne, & Lot his sonne Harans sonne, & Sarai his doughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife, & caried them wt him from Vr in Chaldea, to go in to the lande of Canaan. And they came to Haran, & dwelt there.
Genesis 12:5
So Abram toke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, wt all their goodes which they had gotten, and soules which they begat in Hara, and departed to go in to ye londe of Canaan.
Genesis 12:8
The brake he vp fro thece, vnto a mountayne yt laye on ye east syde of the cite of Bethel, & pitched his tent: so yt he had Bethel on the west side, and Ay on ye east syde: & there buylded he an altare also vnto the LORDE, & called vpon the name of the LORDE.
Genesis 12:9
Afterwarde departed Abram farther, & toke his iourneye southwarde.
Genesis 14:14
Now whan Abram herde yt his brother was taken, he harnessed his bonde seruauntes borne in his owne house, thre hundreth & eightene, & folowed after them vntill Dan,
Genesis 14:21
Then sayde the kynge of Sodome vnto Abram: Geue me the soules, and take ye goodes vnto thy self.
Acts 7:4
The wente he out of the lande of the Caldees, and dwelt in Haran. And from thece, whan his father was deed, he brought him ouer in to this londe (where ye dwell now)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Dig thou through the wall in their sight,.... The wall of the house where he was, as an emblem of the city of Jerusalem closely besieged, from whence there was no escape but by digging through the wall this showed the manner in which Zedekiah made his escape, by the way of the gate, between the two walls which was by the king's garden,

Jeremiah 52:7;

and carry out thereby; not his stuff, as before; but provisions for himself, necessary for his journey or flight; as no doubt Zedekiah and those with him did.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 12:5. Dig thou through the wall — This refers to the manner in which Zedekiah and his family would escape from the city. They escaped by night through a breach in the wall. See Jeremiah 39:2-4; and 2 Kings 25:4.


 
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