Ezekiel 12:5
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.
Webster's Revision
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
World English Bible
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Clarke's Ezekiel 12:5 Bible Commentary
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.
Wesley's Ezekiel 12:5 Bible Commentary
12:5 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; for all will be little enough for them that must act what thou dost represent.Carry out - Through the hole thou hast dug.
