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

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

I 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 –

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

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

But she increased her prostitution. She saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans carved in bright red,

Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long,

from the ground to the area above the entrance, cherubim and decorative palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary.

The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple.

So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast – detestable images – and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.

I 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.

Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.

The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, and the open area between the side chambers of the temple

to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy of wood on the front of the outside porch.

Then 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.

So 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.

“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.

“But as for you, son of man, your people (who are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses) say to one another, ‘Come hear the word that comes from the Lord.’

The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet all around, and its length 157½ feet.