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, carried away in triumph, because murders and oppressions abounded in them, or because the crimes which deserved death abounded among them.
Verse Ezekiel 7:23. _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," c....
MAKE A CHAIN - Forge the chain, the chain of imprisonment determined for them....
Ezekiel 7:1. This chapter closes the first great message of Ezekiel. This great judgment message is written in beautiful language, which, in the Authorized Version, is marred by numerous incorrect ren...
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 gold...
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....
Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...
Picture of the dissolution of the state (1) Ezekiel 7:14. The trumpet shall sound the alarm, but none shall prepare himself for the battle. The sword shall devour without and famine consume within. A...
_Make a chain_ THE chain. The chain could only be for binding the captives to carry them into exile. In Isaiah 40:19 a similar word is used for the silver chains with which the idols were fastened to...
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....
4. _The political disorder (7:23-27_) TRANSLATION (23) Make the chain; for the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence. (24) Therefore I have brought the worst of nations, and the...
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. , "Make thee bonds"). As they enchained the land with violence, so...
A CHAIN] a figure for captivity. Violence must be punished by forcible restraint....
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 at hand...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 7 THE *DISASTERS WILL HAPPEN SOON – EZEKIEL 7:1-13 v1...
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...
עֲשֵׂ֖ה הָֽ רַתֹּ֑וק כִּ֣י הָ אָ֗רֶץ מָֽלְאָה
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 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 about four and a...
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, e...
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....
_Shutting up. Hebrew, "chain," for imprisonment and captivity. (Challoner) --- Pronounce sentence upon all._...
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. Whe...
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 that G...
Finally (chap. 7), the whole land of Israel is under the sentence of God, "the four corners of the land." Those who escape the general judgment mourn alone upon the mountains, having forsaken all in d...
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 chains...
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., _ Ca...
_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 in...
Make a chain, forging fetters for the inhabitants of the land; FOR THE LAND IS FULL OF BLOODY CRIMES, of blood-guiltiness, AND THE CITY, namely, Jerusalem, IS FULL OF VIOLENCE....
THE RUIN ACCOMPLISHED...
23-27 Whoever break the bands of God's law, will find themselves bound and held by the chains of his judgments. Since they encouraged one another to sin, God would dishearten them. All must needs be i...
Ezekiel 7:23 Make H6213 (H8798) chain H7569 land H776 filled H4390 (H8804) crimes H4941 blood H1818 city...
“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 wou...
CONTENTS: Miserable end of Judah because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: The ruin of sinners comes slowly but surely, but when it comes, it will be total. In the heaviest judgments God...
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 sh...
_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, but m...
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 already f...
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 same group...
CHAPTER 7. LAMENTATION OVER THE GUILT AND FALL OF ISRAEL. THIS chapter does not contain anything properly new. It simply describes the mournful feelings and reflections which the preceding revelation...
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel (Ezekiel 7:1-2); Now, the other was to the mountains, now to the land. the...
2 Kings 21:16; 2 Kings 24:4; Ezekiel 11:6; Ezekiel 19:3; Ezekiel 22:
A chain — To bind the captives....