The prince; Zedekiah. Among them; in Jerusalem. Shall bear upon his shoulder; disguised no doubt as a common ordinary servant, in hope so to escape; but to conceal himself he flees in a disguise, and chooseth the twilight as the time that would best favour his design; so 2 Kings 25:4. They shall dig through the wall; fulfilled when they broke down the wall to flee, as Jeremiah 39:4: probably they had built up some slight wall to blind the enemy, which now they break to flee through. He shall cover his face; partly out of grief, partly out of shame, partly prefiguring Zedekiah's future loss of his eyes, and his blindness which the insolency of Nebuchadnezzar afflicted him with; but Zedekiah did by this chiefly aim at concealing himself in disguise and covering his face.
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Ezekiel 12:12
12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.