Ezekiel 7:23

Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

In Context

22And I have turned My face from them, And they have polluted My hidden place, Yea, come into it have destroyers, and polluted it.

24And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, And polluted have been those sanctifying them.

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:4and also the innocent blood that he hath shed, and he filleth Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

Isaiah 59:3For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

Jeremiah 2:34Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.

Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Jeremiah 40:1The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, hath sent him from Ramah, in his taking him — and he a prisoner in chains — in the midst of all the removal of Jerusalem and of Judah, who are removed to Babylon.

Ezekiel 8:16And He bringeth me in unto the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and lo, at the opening of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces eastward, and they are bowing themselves eastward to the sun.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:17-23

The Desolation of Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold… Read the whole commentary →

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