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 34:15
Context34:15 I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 39:3
Context39:3 I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.
Ezekiel 43:26
Context43:26 For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it. 3
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 “fill its hands.”
