Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Dig—as Zedekiah was to escape like one digging through a wall, furtively to effect an escape (Ezekiel 12:12).
carry out—namely, "thy stuff" (Ezekiel 12:4).
thereby—by the opening in the wall. Zedekiah escaped "by the gate betwixt the two walls" (Jeremiah 39:4).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 12:5:
Amos 4:3
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