Ezekiel 12:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 25:4 : 4 So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
  • Jer 39:2-4 : 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:) 3 All the captains of the king of Babylon came in and took their places in the middle doorway of the town, Nergal-shar-ezer, ruler of Sin-magir, the Rabmag, and Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and all the captains of the king of Babylon. 4 And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.

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  • Ezek 12:2-4
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    2 Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.

    3 And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.

    4 By day, before their eyes, take out your vessels like those of one who is taken away: and go out in the evening before their eyes, like those who are taken away as prisoners.

  • Ezek 12:6-8
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    6 And before their eyes, take your goods on your back and go out in the dark; go with your face covered: for I have made you a sign to the children of Israel.

    7 And I did as I was ordered: I took out my vessels by day, like those of one who is taken away, and in the evening I made a hole through the wall with a tent-pin; and in the dark I went out, taking my things on my back before their eyes.

    8 And in the morning the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    11 Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so will it be done to them: they will go away as prisoners.

    12 And the ruler who is among them will take his goods on his back in the dark and go out: he will make a hole in the wall through which to go out: he will have his face covered so that he may not be seen.

  • Ezek 8:7-9
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    7 And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.

    8 And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door.

    9 And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here.

  • 12 And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?

  • 3 And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.

  • Isa 22:15-17
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    15 The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,

    16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

    17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

  • 45 And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

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    14 So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.

    15 So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?

  • 3 And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.

  • 17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

  • 5 And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord;

  • 12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • 14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • 13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

  • Jer 13:4-5
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    4 Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.

    5 So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me.

  • 10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

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    4 And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

    5 And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.

  • 10 Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.

  • 5 You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.

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    7 And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it.

    8 And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.

  • 12 They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • 20 Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,

  • 16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

  • 12 To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.

  • 11 A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.

  • 5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

  • 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

  • 14 And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

  • 11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

  • 5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

  • 41 And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town:

  • 40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • 10 Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

  • 5 Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

  • 11 Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.

  • 10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.