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Ezek. 7:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

2 Kings 21:16• ¹⁶{i}And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah.{/i} (2 Kings 21:16)

Cross References

a chain.

Ezek. 19:3‑6• ³And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
⁴The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
⁵Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion.
⁶And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey and devoured men. (Ezek. 19:3‑6)

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Jer. 27:2• ²Thus saith Jehovah to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, (Jer. 27:2)

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Jer. 40:1• ¹The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon. (Jer. 40:1)

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Lam. 3:7• ⁷{i}He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.{HR}{/i} (Lam. 3:7)

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Nah. 3:10• ¹⁰Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. (Nah. 3:10)

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Ezek. 9:9• ⁹Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not. (Ezek. 9:9)

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Ezek. 11:6• ⁶Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. (Ezek. 11:6)

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Ezek. 22:3‑6,9,13,27• ³Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, the city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
⁴Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years; therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
⁵Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
⁶{i}Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.{/i}
⁹{i}In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness;{/i}
¹³Therefore, behold, I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
²⁷Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. (Ezek. 22:3‑6,9,13,27)

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2 Kings 24:4• ⁴{i}and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah would not pardon.{/i} (2 Kings 24:4)

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Isa. 1:15• ¹⁵And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (Isa. 1:15)

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Isa. 59:3,7• ³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips are speaking lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
⁷Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction [are] in their paths. (Isa. 59:3,7)

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Jer. 2:34• ³⁴{i}Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but it is found upon all these.{/i} (Jer. 2:34)

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Jer. 7:6• ⁶if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: (Jer. 7:6)

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Jer. 22:17• ¹⁷But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:17)

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Hos. 4:2• ²Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, burst out, and blood toucheth on blood (Hos. 4:2)

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Mic. 2:2• ²And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. (Mic. 2:2)

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Mic. 7:2• ²The good man is perished {i}out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.{/i} (Mic. 7:2)

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Zeph. 3:3‑4• ³Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
⁴Her prophets are light and treacherous persons, her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. (Zeph. 3:3‑4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)