Ezekiel 12:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Ezekiel 12:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …
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.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

Perhaps Ezekiel reflected with so much pleasure upon the vision he had had of the glory of God that often, since it went up from him, he was wishing it might come down to him again, and, having seen it once and a second time, he was willing to hope he might be a third time so favoured; but we do not find that he ever saw it any more, and yet the word of the Lord comes to him; for God did in divers…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Dig--as Zedekiah was to escape like one digging through a wall, furtively to effect an escape (Eze 12:12). carry out--namely, “thy stuff” (Eze 12:4). thereby--by the opening in the wall. Zedekiah escaped “by the gate betwixt the two walls” (Jr 39:4).