“ Digb thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. ”
Ezekiel 12. Exile Foreshadowed. Ezekiel 12:1-16 . 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...
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 ).
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, th...
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. Dig thou through the wall - This refers to the manner in which Zedekiah and his family would escape from the city. They escaped by nig...
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 es...
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 representat...
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, t...
THE END OF THE MONARCHY Ezekiel 12:1-15 ; Ezekiel 17:1-24 ; Ezekiel 19:1-14 IN spite of the interest excited by Ezekiel's prophetic appearances, the exiles still received his prediction of th...
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 com...
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 Read...
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...
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 Nott...
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 t...
Zedekiah's Captivity Foretold. B. C. 593. 1 The word of the L ORD also came unto me, sa...
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 has...
“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...
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...
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...
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 e...
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...
The Sign of the Kings Departue
2 Kings 25:4 ; Jeremiah 39:2-4
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 sec...