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
‘When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs,
He became a [young] lion,
And he learned to catch and tear the prey;
He devoured men.
‘When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs,
He became a [young] lion,
And he learned to catch and tear the prey;
He devoured men.
Jeremiah 27:2
Thus says the Lord to me, “Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,
Jeremiah 40:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken as exiles to Babylon.
Lamentations 3:7
He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.
He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.
Nahum 3:10
Yet she became an exile;
She went into captivity.
Her young children were dashed to pieces
At the head of every street;
They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with chains.
Yet she became an exile;
She went into captivity.
Her young children were dashed to pieces
At the head of every street;
They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with chains.
General references
Ezekiel 11:6
You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the corpses [of righteous men].”