Teks -- Ezekiel 12:6 (NET)

12:6 While 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.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 12:6 - Bare it

In testimony of the servitude they shall be reduced to, who then must do what servants or beasts were wont to be employed in.

Wesley: Eze 12:6 - Cover thy face

As unwilling to be seen or known.

Wesley: Eze 12:6 - For

I have set thee for a sign to them, and thou shalt tell them the meaning of these things in due time.

JFB: Eze 12:6 - in . . . twilight

Rather, "in the dark." So in Gen 15:17, "it" refers to "thy stuff."

JFB: Eze 12:6 - cover thy face

As one who muffles his face, afraid of being recognized by anyone meeting him. So the Jews and Zedekiah should make their exit stealthily and afraid to look around, so hurried should be their fight [CALVIN].

JFB: Eze 12:6 - sign

Rather, "a portent," namely, for evil.

Clarke: Eze 12:6 - Thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground

Thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground - Referring to the blinding of Zedekiah: even the covering of the face might be intended to signify that in this way Zedekiah should be carried to Babylon on men’ s shoulders in some sort of palanquin, with a cloth tied over his eyes, because of the recent wounds made by extracting them. All the prophecies from this to the twentieth chapter are supposed to have been delivered in the sixth year of Zedekiah, five years before the taking of Jerusalem. How accurate the prediction! and how exactly fulfilled!

TSK: Eze 12:6 - thou shalt // cover // for I

thou shalt : 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.

cover : 1Sa 28:8; 2Sa 15:30; Job 24:17

for I : Eze 12:11, Eze 4:3, Eze 24:24; Isa 8:18, Isa 20:2-4

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 12:6 - Upon thy shoulders // Carry it forth // Cover thy face // For I have set thee

Upon thy shoulders in testimony of the servitude they shall be reduced to, who then must do what servants or beasts were wont to be employed in.

Carry it forth either the stuff or thyself; thou shalt go forth in the twilight, when there is a little light to guide thy way, but more darkness to conceal thy person and thy flight.

Cover thy face as full of shame, and exceeding unwilling to be seen or known.

For I have set thee: there is good reason why thou shouldst do this, how strange, unmanly, or ridiculous soever this may seem; the moral concerns the house of Israel and its king; I have set thee for a sign to them, and thou shalt tell them the meaning of these hieroglyphics in due time.

Haydock: Eze 12:6 - Be carried // Cover // Sign

Be carried. (Septuagint) St. Jerome reads, "thou shalt carry thy bundles on the shoulder," as many explain the Hebrew, (Calmet) and also ver. 7. "I bear it upon my shoulder," ver. 12. (Protestants) (Haydock) ---

Cover, to denote the blindness of Sedecias, (Calmet) or his attempt to disguise himself. (Haydock) ---

The faces of criminals were covered, Esther vii. The king and nobles escaped through a breach, Jeremias xxxix. 4. (Calmet) ---

Sign. Literally, "a prodigy to," &c. (Haydock) ---

The actions as well as the words of the prophet indicated what would happen. (St. Jerome, ver. 11.)

Gill: Eze 12:6 - In their sight shall thou bear it upon thy shoulders // and carry it forth in the twilight // thou shall cover thy face, that thou see not the ground // for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel

In their sight shall thou bear it upon thy shoulders,.... The bundle, packed up for his use and service, carried out through the wall dug by him. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it, as if he himself was to be carried out upon the shoulders of another, thus: "in their sight, upon the shoulders, thou shall be carried"; but the former sense is best:

and carry it forth in the twilight; signifying the same as before:

thou shall cover thy face, that thou see not the ground; or "land"; not the land of Israel, but the land of Chaldea, where the prophet was: this shows that great shame and confusion which should attend the king of Judah when he fled, and great fear and terror also; and likewise his regard to his eyes being put out by the king of Babylon; so that he saw not the land into which he was carried captive, Jer 52:11;

for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel; to show unto them by deeds, as well as by words, what should befall them; see Isa 8:18.