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Ezekiel 12:5

Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

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.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Dygge thorow the wall, that they maye se, and beare thorow it the same thinge, that thou tokest vp
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 word of Yahweh also came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house. 4 You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile. 5 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. 6 In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel. 7 I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight. 8 In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying, 9 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you? 10 Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.

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
The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there.
Genesis 12:5
Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 12:8
He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 12:9
Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
Genesis 14:21
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
Acts 7:4
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

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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