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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 12:6 — In their sight shalt thou bear [it] upon [thy] shoulders, [and] carry [it] forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee [for] a sign unto the house of Israel.
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This intimated that Zedekiah should steal out of the city in the twilight, carrying on his shoulders some of his property, with his head covered, not only as in distress but to escape detection. These prophecies, which were accurately fulfilled, are supposed to have been delivered in the sixth year of Zedekiah, five years before the taking of Jerusalem. |
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1Sa 28:8; 2Sa 15:30; Job 24:17 |
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Eze 12:11; Eze 4:3; Eze 24:24; Isa 8:18; Isa 20:2-4 |
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1Sa 28:8 |
And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me [him] up, whom I shall name unto thee. |
  
  
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2Sa 15:30 |
And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that [was] with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. |
  
  
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Job 24:17 |
For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death. |
  
  
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Eze 12:11 |
Say, I [am] your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove [and] go into captivity. |
  
  
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Eze 4:3 |
Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it [for] a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This [shall be] a sign to the house of Israel. |
  
  
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Eze 24:24 |
Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD. |
  
  
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Isa 8:18 |
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. |
  
  
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Isa 20:2 |
At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. |
  
  
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Isa 20:3 |
And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; |
  
  
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Isa 20:4 |
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Ezekiel 12:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. . <http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Eze/12/6.html>.

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