Discovery BoxEzekiel 7:23 
Context7:23 (Make the chain, 1 because the land is full of murder 2 and the city is full of violence.)
Ezekiel 16:29
Context16:29 Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, 3 but you were not satisfied there either.
Ezekiel 21:2
Context21:2 “Son of man, turn toward 4 Jerusalem 5 and speak out against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
Ezekiel 21:30
Context21:30 Return it to its sheath! 6
In the place where you were created, 7
in your native land, I will judge you.
Ezekiel 36:34
Context36:34 The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.
1 tc The Hebrew word “the chain” occurs only here in the OT. The reading of the LXX (“and they will make carnage”) seems to imply a Hebrew text of ַהבַּתּוֹק (habbattoq, “disorder, slaughter”) instead of הָרַתּוֹק (haratoq, “the chain”). The LXX is also translating the verb as a third person plural future and taking this as the end of the preceding verse. As M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:154) notes, this may refer to a chain for a train of exiles but “the context does not speak of exile but of the city’s fall. The versions guess desperately and we can do little better.”
2 tn Heb “judgment for blood,” i.e., indictment or accountability for bloodshed. The word for “judgment” does not appear in the similar phrase in 9:9.
3 tn Heb “Chaldea.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon (“Chaldeans”) and the territory from which they originated (“Chaldea”) is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon.
4 tn Heb “set your face toward.”
5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
6 sn Once the Babylonian king’s sword (vv. 19-20) has carried out its assigned task, the Lord commands it to halt and announces that Babylon itself will also experience his judgment. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:28.
7 tn In the Hebrew text of vv. 30-32 the second person verbal and pronominal forms are feminine singular. This may indicate that the personified Babylonian sword is being addressed. The Hebrew word for “sword” (see v. 28) is feminine. However, it may refer to the Ammonites.
