Ezekiel 7:23

Wherefore I will bring the worst of the Heathen,.... The Chaldeans, notorious for their cruelty, savageness, and barbarity:

and they shall possess their houses; which they have built, and thought to…

Make a chain - Forge the chain, the chain of imprisonment determined for them.

Make a chain - Point out the captivity; show them that it shall come, and show them the reason: "Because the land is full of bloody crimes," etc.

Here is, I. The prisoner arraigned: Make a chain, in which to drag the criminal to the bar, and set him before the tribunal of divine justice; let him stand in fetters (as a notorious malefactor),…

Make a chain the chain. The chain could only be for binding the captives to carry them into exile. In Isa 40:19 a similar word is used for the silver chains with which the idols were fastened to the…