Ezekiel 7:23

"Forge a chain, because the land is full of bloody judgment and the city is filled with violence.

Jeremiah 27:2

this is what the LORD says to me: "Make restraints and yokes for yourself and put them on your neck.

Ezekiel 9:9

"The house of Israel and Judah is guilty and theirs is a stubborn guilt, at that!" he replied to me. "The land is filled with blood, and the city overflows with injustice, because they keep saying, "The LORD has abandoned the land,' and "The LORD isn't watching.'

2 Kings 21:16

In addition to this, Manasseh shed lots of innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another besides his sin by which he caused Judah to sin by practicing what the LORD considered to be evil.

Ezekiel 11:6

You've increased the number of fatally wounded in this city and you've filled your streets with the dead."

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.

2 Kings 24:4

as well as for the innocent blood that he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not forgive them.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I'll hide my eyes from you. Even though you pray repeatedly, I won't listen. Your hands are full of blood, your fingers drenched with iniquity."

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet rush to evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; ruin, destruction, and violence are in their paths.

Jeremiah 2:34

On your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, even though you didn't catch them breaking in. Yet despite all these things,

Jeremiah 7:6

and if you don't oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, and don't shed an innocent person's blood in this place, and if you don't follow other gods to your own harm,

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are on nothing but your dishonest gain, shedding the blood of innocent people, and practicing oppression and extortion."

Jeremiah 40:1

This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had released him from Ramah, when he was bound in chains, along with all the exiles from Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken into exile in Babylon.

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he placed heavy chains on me.

Ezekiel 8:17

"Do you see this, Son of Man?" he asked me. "Is it an insignificant thing for Judah's house to commit the detestable things that they're doing here? They've filled the land with violence and turned away from me, causing me to become angry again. Look how they're sniffing with their noses!

Ezekiel 19:3-6

She raised one cub in particular, teaching that fierce lion to become a hunter-prowler to eat human beings.

Ezekiel 22:3-6

"You are to say, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "The city keeps on shedding blood within her, hastening her time to be judged. She crafts idols that defile her.

Ezekiel 22:9

Slanderous men live among you, intent on shedding blood. They've eaten at the top of mountain shrines. They've crafted plans to do evil things among you.

Ezekiel 22:13

"Watch out! I'm vehemently angry about the unjust gains that you've earned, and about the blood that has been shed among you.

Ezekiel 22:27

""I'm constantly being profaned among them. Her princes within her are like wolves tearing their prey apart. They shed blood, destroying souls, and make unjust gain.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them; they covet houses, and grab them, too. They harass the valiant man, along with his household, an individual and his estate.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have died off, and there is not one upright human being in the land. They all stalk one another with lethal intent, a man will even hunt his own brother with a net.

Nahum 3:10

But she, too, was exiled she went into captivity! Her young children were dashed to pieces at every crossroad of their streets, and her famous citizens were sold by lottery, while all of her aristocrats were put in chains.

Zephaniah 3:3-4

Its national officials are roaring lions; its judges are like wolves of the night that don't leave the bones for the morning.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

A chain

Ezekiel 19:3
She raised one cub in particular, teaching that fierce lion to become a hunter-prowler to eat human beings.
Jeremiah 27:2
this is what the LORD says to me: "Make restraints and yokes for yourself and put them on your neck.
Jeremiah 40:1
This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had released him from Ramah, when he was bound in chains, along with all the exiles from Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken into exile in Babylon.
Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he placed heavy chains on me.
Nahum 3:10
But she, too, was exiled she went into captivity! Her young children were dashed to pieces at every crossroad of their streets, and her famous citizens were sold by lottery, while all of her aristocrats were put in chains.

General references

Ezekiel 11:6
You've increased the number of fatally wounded in this city and you've filled your streets with the dead."

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