Ezekiel 12:5

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While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 25:4 : 4 The enemy broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden.(The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the rift valley.
  • Jer 39:2-4 : 2 It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls. 3 Then Nergal-Sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-Sarsekim, who was a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer, who was a high official, and all the other officers of the king of Babylon came and set up quarters in the Middle Gate. 4 When King Zedekiah of Judah and all his soldiers saw them, they tried to escape. They departed from the city during the night. They took a path through the king’s garden and passed out through the gate between the two walls. Then they headed for the rift valley.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 12:2-4
    3 verses
    86%

    2“Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, because they are a rebellious house.

    3“Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand, although they are a rebellious house.

    4Bring out your belongings packed for exile during the day while they are watching. And go out at evening, while they are watching, as if for exile.

  • Ezek 12:6-8
    3 verses
    85%

    6While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground because I have made you an object lesson to the house of Israel.”

    7So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage on my shoulder while they watched.

    8The LORD’s message came to me in the morning:

  • Ezek 12:11-12
    2 verses
    83%

    11Say,‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’

    12“The prince who is among them will raise his belongings onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

  • Ezek 8:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

    8He said to me,“Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

    9He said to me,“Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”

  • Ezek 13:12
    74%

    12When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”

  • Ezek 4:3
    72%

    3Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.

  • Isa 22:15-17
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    72%

    15This is what the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, says:“Go visit this administrator, Shebna, who supervises the palace, and tell him:

    16‘What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.

    17Look, the LORD will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.

  • Lev 14:45
    72%

    45He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.

  • Ezek 13:14-15
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    72%

    14I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, and you will know that I am the LORD.

    15I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you,“The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more–

  • Amos 4:3
    72%

    3Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon.” The LORD is speaking!

  • Jer 10:17
    72%

    17Jeremiah Laments for and Prays for the Soon-to-be-Judged People Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5
    72%

    5Have them hand it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it,

  • Isa 25:12
    72%

    12The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

  • Nah 3:14
    71%

    14Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

  • Isa 30:13
    71%

    13So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.

  • Jer 13:4-5
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    71%

    4“Take the shorts that you bought and are wearing and go at once to Perath. Bury the shorts there in a crack in the rocks.”

    5So I went and buried them at Perath as the LORD had ordered me to do.

  • Isa 22:10
    71%

    10You counted the houses in Jerusalem, and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall.

  • Zech 5:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4“I will send it out,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”

    5Vision Seven: The Ephah After this the angelic messenger who had been speaking to me went out and said,“Look, see what is leaving.”

  • Isa 62:10
    71%

    10Come through! Come through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! Build it! Build the roadway! Remove the stones! Lift a signal flag for the nations!

  • Ezek 13:5
    71%

    5You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the LORD.

  • Ezek 4:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

    8Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.

  • Ezek 26:12
    71%

    12They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.

  • Jer 5:20
    70%

    20“Proclaim this message among the descendants of Jacob. Make it known throughout Judah.

  • Job 24:16
    70%

    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

  • Ezek 38:12
    70%

    12to loot and plunder, to attack the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center of the earth.”

  • Mic 7:11
    70%

    11It will be a day for rebuilding your walls; in that day your boundary will be extended.

  • Isa 22:5
    70%

    5For the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, has planned a day of panic, defeat, and confusion. In the Valley of Vision people shout and cry out to the hill.

  • Hab 2:11
    70%

    11For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.

  • Isa 57:14
    70%

    14He says,“Build it! Build it! Clear a way! Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”

  • Amos 6:11
    70%

    11Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

  • Isa 5:5
    70%

    5Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.

  • Lev 14:41
    70%

    41Then they shall scrape the house all around on the inside, and the plaster which they have scraped off must be dumped outside the city into an unclean place.

  • Ezek 16:40
    70%

    40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

  • Jer 5:10
    70%

    10The LORD commanded the enemy,“March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the LORD.

  • Jer 6:5
    69%

    5So come on, let’s go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.’

  • Obad 1:11
    69%

    11You stood aloof while strangers took his army captive, and foreigners advanced to his gates. When they cast lots over Jerusalem, you behaved as though you were in league with them.

  • Ps 55:10
    69%

    10Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.