Ezekiel 7:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Ezekiel 7:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Make a chain - Forge the chain, the chain of imprisonment determined for them.
Ezekiel 7:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Make a (s) chain: for the land is full of (t) bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. (s) Signifying that they would be bound and led away captives. (t) That is, of sins that deserve death...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

In the dread day of the siege, when ruthless Babylonian hands would profane Yahweh's secret (or rather cherished) place, i.e. the Temple, famine would reign, and then not all their silver and gol...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Make. chain. The sign of captivity, answering to the other sign in Ezekiel 7:11 . ("q"). bloody crimes . crimes of bloodshed i.e. capital crimes.
Ezekiel 7:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Interpreters refer the Prophet’s being ordered to make a chain to the captivity; for we know that captives are accustomed to be bound with chains and fetters, or manacles. Hence they explain it...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Make a chain - Point out the captivity; show them that it shall come, and show them the reason: "Because the lan...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Make a chain— That is, as emblematical of the approaching captivity, when king and people should be carried in chains to Babylon. See 2 Kings 25:7 . Jeremiah 40:1 .
Ezekiel 7:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Make a chain - symbol of the captivity (cf. Jeremiah 27:2 , "Make thee bonds"). As they enchained the l...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Desolation of the Land of Israel This is a final message of doom upon the whole land ( Ezekiel 7:2 ). God's wrath against Israel's sin is relentless, and the judgment is inevitable and close a...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 b...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1-17 - Ezekiel 7:1-27 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of abo...
Ezekiel 7:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The second denunciation dealt with the completeness of judgment. Its keynote was expressed in the words, "an end." The prophet declared that an end on the land and the people had been determined on,...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I include the whole under one reading for the sake of shortness. In these verses is contained, the effect which must always follow God's judgment. No rank, no state, no condition of man is exempt. Wh...
Ezekiel 7:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Make a chain ,.... To bind them; not the robbers, the Chaldeans, but the Jews; in order either to bring them to the bar to be tried for capital crimes hereafter mentioned, or to be led bound in chai...
Ezekiel 7:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Ver. 23. Make a chain. ] Which is an emblem of bondage. For the land is full of bloody crimes, ] i.e.,...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Make a chain To foreshow the approaching captivity, when both king and people should be carried in chains to Babylon. For the land is full of bloody crimes The innocent blood that has been shed i...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Desolation of Israel. B. C. 594. 23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody c...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A chain; either to signify that like criminals they should be brought in chains before God their Judge; or, as guilty and condemned, should be led away in chains; or else, as captives in chains, ca...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Make the chain, for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of violence.” The command comes to ‘make the chain (that which binds)'. This was addressed to their captors who w...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

5. LAMENTATION OVER THE DESOLATED LAND (Chap. 7) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In this chapter we have not so much an additional prophecy as a re-statement of principles and denunciations which had been alrea...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 7:2 . An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. The end is come at once on the whole land of Judea and of Israel. The crown is fallen from the heads of David's house: they...
Ezekiel 7:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Make a chain. The chain of influences At school and in college, in announcing the mechanical powers, we glorified the lever, the pulley, the inclined plane, the screw, the axle and the wheel, b...
Ezekiel 7:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 7:1 The absence of any fresh date, and the fact that it is simply tacked on to the previous chapter by the copulative conjunction, shows that what follows belongs to the...
Ezekiel 7:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Ruin Accomplished
Ezekiel 7:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 21:16 ; 2 Kings 24:4 ; Ezekiel 11:6 ; Ezekiel 19:3-6 ; Ezekiel 22:13 ; Ezekiel 22:27 ; Ezekiel 22:3-6 ; Ezekiel 22:9 ; Ezekiel 9:9 ; Hosea 4:2 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; Isaiah 59:3 ; Isaia...
Ezekiel 7:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A chain — To bind the captives.

Ezekiel 7:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 7:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 7:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 7:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 7:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 7:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 7:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 7:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 7:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 7:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 7:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 7:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 7:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 7:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes