Ezekiel 12:5
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Ezekiel 12:5 in other translations
| BSB | As they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it. |
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| WEB | Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your baggage out that way. |
| ASV | Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. |
| YLT | Before their eyes dig for thee through the wall, and thou hast brought forth by it. |
| DARBY | Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. |
| BBE | Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it. |
| Webster | Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. |
What does Ezekiel 12:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 12:1-16
The approaching captivity. (Ezek 12:1-16) An emblem of the consternation of the Jews. (Ezek 12:17-20) Answers to the objections of scoffers. (Ezek 12:21-28) Verses 1-16 By the preparation for removal, and his breaking through the wall of his house at evening, as one desirous to escape from the enemy, the prophet signified the conduct and fate of Zedekiah. When God has delivered us, we must glorify him and edify…
Ezekiel 12:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 12:5
- Jeremiah 39:2-4
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal–sharezer, Samgar–nebo, Sarsechim, Rab–saris, Nergal–sharezer, Rab–mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
- 2 Kings 25:4
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.
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2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:2-4
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Context
- Ezekiel 12:4
Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
- Ezekiel 12:5
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
- Ezekiel 12:6
In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Delante de sus ojos horadarás la pared, y saldrás por ella. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Perce le mur sous leurs yeux, et mets dehors par là ton bagage; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Vor ihren Augen durchbrich dir die Mauer, und trage sie dadurch hinaus; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ante oculos eorum perfode tibi parietem, et egredieris per eum. |