Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

While they continue to watch, dig a hole for yourself in the wall and enter through it.

New American Standard Bible

Dig a hole through the wall in their sight and go out through it.

King James Version

Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Holman Bible

As they watch, dig through the wall and take the bags out through it.

A Conservative Version

Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out by that.

American Standard Version

Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Amplified

Dig through the wall as they watch and go out through the hole.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Julia Smith Translation

Before their eyes break through to thee in the wall, and bring forth by it

King James 2000

Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry out your belongings through it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Before their eyes dig through for yourself, through the wall, and you must bring [the baggage] out through it.

Modern King James verseion

Dig through the wall before their eyes, and carry out through it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Dig through the wall, that they may see: and bear through it the same thing that thou tookest up in their sight.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

The Emphasized Bible

Before their eyes, break thou forth by thyself through the wall, - and carry forth through it.

Webster

Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

World English Bible

Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

Youngs Literal Translation

Before their eyes dig for thee through the wall, and thou hast brought forth by it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Dig
חתר 
Chathar 
dig, row
Usage: 8

thou through the wall
קירה קר קיר 
Qiyr 
Usage: 74

and carry out
יצא 
Yatsa' 
....out, ....forth, bring, come, proceed, go, depart,
Usage: 1068

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

The Announcement Of The Imminent Coming Of The Exile

4 "Bring out your luggage, like you're packing to go into exile, and do this during the daytime while they're watching you. Later that evening, leave while they're watching you like someone heading into exile. 5 While they continue to watch, dig a hole for yourself in the wall and enter through it. 6 "While they're watching, carry your luggage on your shoulder and go out in total darkness. Cover your face so that you won't see the land, because I'm using you as a sign to Israel's house."

Cross References

2 Kings 25:4

The city was breached, and the entire army left during the night through the gate that stood between the two walls beside the royal garden, even though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city. They escaped through the Arabah,

Jeremiah 39:2-4

On the ninth day of the fourth month, in the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, the wall of the city was breached.

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