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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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The Inescapable Chain
Commentators explain that the command to "make a chain" is a powerful symbol. It represents the inescapable judgment coming upon Judah. Scholars see it as both the chain of a captive being led into exile and the chain of a condemned criminal being brought before God's tribunal for sentencing. The time for freedom in sin was over; the time for binding judgment had arrived.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Make a chain - Forge the chain, the chain of imprisonment determined for them.
19th Century
Anglican
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 t…
16th Century
Protestant
Interpreters connect the Prophet’s command to make a chain with the captivity, for we know that captives are usually bound with chains and fetters,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Make a chain To bind them; not the robbers, the Chaldeans, but the Jews; in order either to bring them to the bar to…
Whoever breaks 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,…
