Ezekiel 12:5
 Ezekiel 12:5 
New International Version (© 2011)
While they watch, dig through the wall and take your belongings out through it.

King James Bible
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

American Standard Version
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Young's Literal Translation
Before their eyes dig for thee through the wall, and thou hast brought forth by it.

Ezekiel 12:5 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

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.

Treasury of Scripture 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 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls...

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...

Ezekiel 12:5 Parallel Commentaries
Belongings Carry Dig Eyes Forth Hole Sight Thereby Wall Watch
Belongings Carry Dig Eyes Forth Hole Sight Thereby Wall Watch
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Ezekiel 12:4 During the daytime, while they watch, bring out your belongings packed for exile. Then in the evening, while they are watching, go out like those who go into exile.
Ezekiel 12:6 Put them on your shoulder as they are watching and carry them out at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign to the Israelites."