Ezekiel Chapter 7 verse 23 Holy Bible
Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
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Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.
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Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
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Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
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Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
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Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - Make a chain; better, the chain. The word is not found elsewhere, but a kindred form is thus translated in 1 Kings 6:21. Looking to the force of the verbs from which it is formed, its special meaning is that of a coupling chain, such as would be used in the case of captives marched off to their place of exile (Nahum 3:10). All previous sufferings were to culminate in this. The φυρμόν of the LXX. and the fac conclusionem of the Vulgate show that the word perplexed them. Full of bloody crimes. The only passage in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament in which the English noun occurs. Literally, judgments of blood. The words may be equivalent either (1) to "blood guiltiness" (compare the "judgment" in Jeremiah 51:9), or (2) to judgment perverted into judicial murder. The latter finds support in Ezekiel 9:9. In either case it is noticeable that Ezekiel points not only to idolatry, but to violence and wrong, as the sins that had cried for punishment (comp. Jeremiah 22:17 as a contemporary witness).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Make a chain.--In the midst of this plain prophecy the strong tendency of the prophet's mind still runs to the symbolic act; but this can be thought of here only as done in word. The chain is to bind captive the guilty people.
