Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Dig thou through the wall in their sight. As Zedekiah was to escape like one digging through a wall, furtively to effect an escape ().
Carry out - namely, "thy stuff" ().
Thereby - by the opening in the wall. Zedekiah escaped "by the gate between the two walls" ().
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 Jerem...
CHAPTER S 12-19 Signs, Messages, and Parables _ 1. Signs given through the prophet (Ezekiel 12:1) _ 2. The message of speedy judgment (Ezekiel 12:21) 3. The message against false prophets and prop...
EZEKIEL 12. EXILE FORESHADOWED. Ezekiel 12:1. Flight from the Beleaguered City. Ezekiel's message of doom has surely been made plain enough, but the rebellious house will not listen; for one thing, th...
DIG THOU THROUGH THE WALL. The sign (Ezekiel 12:2) that Zedekiah would do this "betwixt the walls" (2 Kings 25:4.Jeremiah 39:4; Jeremiah 39:4)....
Symbolical action, prefiguring the escape and capture of the fugitives The details of the symbol seem to be as follows: First, the prophet prepares "stuff for removing" such articles as one meaning t...
_Dig through the wall_ Naturally the "wall" is not the wall of his house, but the city wall. He brought out his articles of flight by day, making them ready for the night-time when he was to escape th...
CHAPTER SEVEN SYMBOLS AND SERMONS 12:1-14:23 This section does not begin with a chronological note, but in all likelihood the symbolic actions and oracles recorded here date from the same time frame...
SYMBOLS OF EXILE, FLIGHT, AND FAMINE Ezekiel's audience being blind to the meaning of the vision he has just described, he is commanded to give them, in new symbolic actions, a further representation...
§ 4. FURTHER PROPHECIES OF ISRAEL'S GUILT AND APPROACHING PUNISHMENT (EZEKIEL 12-19) This is a somewhat miscellaneous group of prophecies intermediate in date between the preceding (August-September,...
GAPS] RM 'breaches.' HEDGE] RV 'fence.' The false prophets did nothing to repair or strengthen Israel's defences. THE WALL] Some understand the town-wall of Tel-abib, or the wall of the courtyard of...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 12 *PROPHECY OF THE *EXILE – EZEKIEL 12:1-20 V1 Th
DIG THOU THROUGH THE WALL. — This is a sub sequent action, as shown by Ezekiel 12:7. The wall was probably of adobe, sun-dried brick, the common building material of the country, and there was, theref...
לְ עֵינֵיהֶ֖ם חֲתָר ־לְךָ֣ בַ † קִּ֑יר...
THE END OF THE MONARCHY Ezekiel 12:1; Ezekiel 17:1; Ezekiel 19:1 IN spite of the interest excited by Ezekiel's prophetic appearances, the exiles still received his prediction of the fall of Jerusalem...
The prophet was next commanded to act in the sight of the people as an exile going forth from his country, preparing "stuff for removing," and carrying it forth from place to place. He obeyed the comm...
It is very proper for the Reader to remark what the Lord so often repeats to his servant the Prophet concerning his people, that they are a rebellious house. For this consideration will help the Reade...
Ezekiel is verbose in this narration. But in the beginning of the book we said, that because the teacher was sent to men very slow and stupid, he therefore used a rough style. We added also, that he h...
Chapter 12 announces the fight and the capture of Zedekiah, who would be carried to Babylon though he would. not see it. All the force of Judah would be dispersed, and the land laid desolate; a small...
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 wal...
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. Ver. 5. _Dig through the wall._] Make any shift. _Necessitas magnum telum._ He that digged Mortimer's hole, as they call it, at Nottin...
_Therefore, prepare thee stuff for removing_ Hebrew, כלי גולה, _vessels_, or _instruments of removing_, namely, such as were suited for that purpose. Get all thy goods together, and pack them up as th...
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, the mud walls of most Oriental houses being easily broken down, AND CARRY OUT THEREBY, through the hole thus produced....
THE SIGN OF THE KINGS DEPARTUE...
DIG THOU: _ Heb._ Dig for thee...
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 G...
Come not through the door, but, as one who knows there is a watch and guard upon the door, get to some back part of thy house, and dig there, EZEKIEL 12:7, thyself, either to make the greater haste, o...
Ezekiel 12:5 Dig H2864 (H8798) wall H7023 sight H5869 out H3318 (H8689) Dig thou - 2 Kings 25
“Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your things out through there. In their sight you will bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You will cover your face so that you do n...
CONTENTS: Vision of the prophet as a sign. Full captivity near at hand. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Sinners often try to think their works are not evil because sentence upon them is not ex...
Ezekiel 12:3. _Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing._ Bring out thy goods ready packed up, and place the baggage before thy door. As the captives on the Chebar would neither see nor hear the pr...
_Prepare thee stuff for removing._ A DRAMA OF EXILE I. The vision in its historical fulfilment. II. The vision in its practical lessons for the present. 1. The consequence of sin is moral exile. A...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 12:1 The predictions of exile in this chapter come during a time when the exile has already begun. Thus, the chapter probably relates to the uncertain decade between 597 B.C. ...
2. FULLER DETAILS RELATING TO THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE AND THEIR PUNISHMENT (Chaps. 12–19) Intercourse with their countrymen in Jerusalem deeply affected the views and hopes of the exiled Jews, as the f...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 12:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD, etc. This formula, so familiar in Isaiah and Jeremiah, appears for the first time in Ezekiel, but occurs repeatedly afterwards, especially in this chapte...
CHAPTER 12. THE VISION OF EZEKIEL'S TYPICAL REMOVING AS AN EXILE, AND ACCOMPANYING INSTRUCTIONS. Ezekiel 12:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 12:2. Son of man, thou dwellest i...
The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and they do not see; they have ears to hear, and they do not hear: for...
2 Kings 25:4; Jeremiah 39:2...
Dig — Come not through the door, but as one who knows there is a guard upon the door, get to some back part of thy house, and dig there thyself, either to make the greater haste, or to keep all secret...