Ezekiel 12:3-4

The Lord instructed Ezekiel to perform another symbolic act. He was to pack his bags during the daylight hours as though he were going into exile. Thus he would probably have packed only the barest necessities. [Note: Greenberg, p. 209.] He was then to leave his present home and depart for another place in the evening, when the other exiles could observe what he was doing. Perhaps this would teach them how rebellious they were. [Note: For ancient pictures of deportees going into exile, see James B. Pritchard, ed., The Ancient Near East in Pictures, plates 10, 311, 363-64, 366, and 373.]

"’Perhaps’ is God’s sigh, rather than a threat." [Note: Allen, p. 178.]