Ezekiel 7:23
in Ezekiel 7Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
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ASV
Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
KJV
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
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This verse in Ezekiel 7
Commentary
8 notes on this verse(Verse 23.) Make a conclusion, for the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of wickedness. LXX: And I will bring disturbance, for the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of iniquities. The Hebrew word Arethich () is interpreted by Aquila as conclusion, and by Symmachus and Theodotion as καθήλωσιν, meaning crucifixion. For this reason, the Septuagint uses φυρμὸν, which we translate as disturbance.
This site's exposition
Forge the chain
on Ezekiel 7:23-24
“Forge the chain,” ties the exile to one cause: “the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.” Bloodguilt is the charge. The Lord will bring “the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses,” and “their holy places will be profaned.”
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The indictment drawn up against the prisoner: The land is full of bloody crimes, full of the judgments of blood (so the word is), that is, of the guilt of blood which they had shed under colour of justice and by forms of law, with the solemnity of a judgment.
An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Therefore translate as the Hebrew requires, "the chain," namely, that usually employed on such occasions. CALVIN explains it, that the Jews should be dragged, whether they would or no, before God's tribunal to be tried as culprits in chains. The next words favor this: "bloody crimes," rather, "judgment of bloods," that is, with blood sheddings deserving the extreme judicial penalty.
Make a chain - Point out the captivity; show them that it shall come, and show them the reason: “Because the land is full of bloody crimes,” etc.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Make a chain - Forge the chain, the chain of imprisonment determined for them.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עֲשֵׂ֖ה | ʾaseh | make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| הָֽרַתּ֑וֹק | haratok | the chain | H7569 → | |
| כִּ֣י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| הָאָ֗רֶץ | haaretz | the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מָֽלְאָה֙ | malah | it is full | H4390 → | 249 times |
| מִשְׁפַּ֣ט | mishpat | judgment of | H4941 → | 422 times |
| דָּמִ֔ים | damim | blood<s> | H1818 → | 360 times |
| וְהָעִ֖יר | vehair | and the city | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| מָלְאָ֥ה | malah | it is full | H4390 → | 249 times |
| חָמָֽס׃ | chamas | violence | H2555 → | 60 times |
עֲשֵׂ֖הmake
ʾasehH6213 →2628 times
הָֽרַתּ֑וֹקthe chain
haratokH7569 →
כִּ֣יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
הָאָ֗רֶץthe land
haaretzH776 →2504 times
מָֽלְאָה֙it is full
malahH4390 →249 times
מִשְׁפַּ֣טjudgment of
mishpatH4941 →422 times
דָּמִ֔יםblood<s>
damimH1818 →360 times
וְהָעִ֖ירand the city
vehairH5892 →1090 times
מָלְאָ֥הit is full
malahH4390 →249 times
חָמָֽס׃violence
chamasH2555 →60 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken…
it leads to
- Job 22:13
Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
- Ezekiel 8:12
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are…
- 2 Chronicles 36:14–16
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in…
- Job 22:13
Through
Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
it leads to
- Hosea 6:9
Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
- Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
- Hosea 6:9
Through
Ezekiel 11:6You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 22:12
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 22:27
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
- Ezekiel 22:12
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.