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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Ezekiel 28:13

Paradise. Thou hadst every thing delightful at Tyre. (Calmet) --- Covering. Hebrew, "bandage;" diadem, (Haydock) or belt. Septuagint specify twelve stones. See Exodus xxviii. 17. --- Pipes; music used at the coronation, which was celebrated as a birth-day. (Calmet) --- God give and withdraws power from all kings. As long as they act well, they are a sort of sanctuary. (Haydock)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 28:13. _THOU HAST BEEN IN EDEN_] This also is a strong irony. Thou art like _Adam_, when in his innocence and excellence he was in the garden of Eden! _EVERY PRECIOUS STONE_ WAS _THY C...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The dirge of the prince of Tyre, answering to the dirge of the state. The passage is ironical; its main purpose is to depict all the glory, real or assumed, of “the prince of Tyrus,” in order to show...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 28:1. The prince of Tyrus, or, as he is also called, the king, was, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, Ithobalus, known in the Phoenician annals as Ithobaal II. He was the consummatio...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 28. TYRE'S FALL FROM HEAVEN. In a remarkable passage, Ezekiel now conceives the pride of Tyre as incarnate in her king. The detail is often obscure and difficult, reminiscent of a mythological...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HAST BEEN. wast. IN EDEN. Here is no evidence of. "legend", but. reality. Satan, the _Nachash_ or shining one, was there. See notes on Genesis 3:1, and App-19. Eve was smitten with his beauty as "an a...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU HAST BEEN IN EDEN, &C.— _Thou wast as Eden,_ &c. Houbigant. "As thy situation was pleasant, so wast thou plentifully supplied with every thing which could contribute to render thy life agreeable....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Lament over the Prince 28:11-19 TRANSLATION (11) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (12) Son of man, lift up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius,...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    28:13 God. (c-8) See ch. 31.9. workmanship (d-39) Or 'the service.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE KING OF TYRE The overweening pride of the prince of Tyre, which has led him to claim to be a god, is rebuked, and his destruction by strangers is foretold (Ezekiel 28:1). He is compared to an inm...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THOU HAST BEEN (RV 'WAST') IN EDEN, etc.] Ezekiel here evidently refers to a legend similar to the story of the Fall in Genesis 3. His use of it seems to indicate that in his day it had not been fixed...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בְּ עֵ֨דֶן גַּן ־אֱלֹהִ֜ים הָיִ֗יתָ כָּל ־אֶ֨

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON Ezekiel 27:1; Ezekiel 28:1 THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1) are somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the chapter we have jus...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The prophecy concerning Tyre ended with a message to its prince and a lamentation for its king. A distinction must be drawn between these two. Most evidently the prince was the then reigning king, Ith...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    From this passage I should be inclined to think that Tyrus is a figure of human nature in general, rather than referring to any one nation in particular; for of what one kingdom upon earth can it be s...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28. Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28), bec...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU HAST BEEN IN EDEN THE GARDEN OF GOD,.... Not only in Eden, but in the garden which was in Eden, and was of the Lord's immediate planting; and therefore called the garden of God, as well as becaus...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbunc...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus_ See Ezekiel 27:32. _Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom_, &c. In thine own opinion thou art the perfect pattern of wisdom and all other excellences;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God, the outward aspect of Tyre being that of ideal loveliness, of the greatest earthly advantages, as a garden of God; EVERY PRECIOUS STONE WAS THY COVERING, all...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    LAMENTATION OVER THE KING OF TYRE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SARDIUS: Or, ruby BERIL: Or, chrysolite EMERAUDE: Or, Chysoprase...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-19 Ethbaal, or Ithobal, was the prince or king of Tyre; and being lifted up with excessive pride, he claimed Divine honours. Pride is peculiarly the sin of our fallen nature. Nor can any wisdom, ex...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THOU HAST BEEN; thou hast dwelt and reigned. IN EDEN; in the midst of all delights; and though nature made thy lot a very barren rock, thy art and industry, added to that of thy progenitors, have made...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 28:13 Eden H5731 garden H1588 God H430 precious H3368 stone H68 covering H4540 sardius H124 topaz H6357 diamo

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “You seal up the sum, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, You were in Eden, the garden of the gods (or ‘of God') Every precious stone was your covering, The sardius, the topaz and the diamond, T...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    LAMENTATION FOR THE KING OF TYRE (EZEKIEL 28:11). This oracle is in the form of a lamentation for the King of Tyre, with his great, exaggerated claims and his certain destruction. There are no good gr...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Rebuke of the King of Tyre, and the fate of Satan who inspired him. Zidon's judgment and Israel's re-gathering. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Daniel, King of Tyre, Satan. CONCLUSION: Those who...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 28:2. _Say unto the prince of Tyrus because thou hast said, I am_ אל El _God,_ or the strong and mighty One. It is plain from the names of the princes that they bore titles of deity. Ezekiel 2...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God._ IN THE GARDEN OF GOD 1. History, it is clear, may be written as poetry; and that, too, without any evaporation of its facts. Ezekiel’s figure gives us the...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    THE EMERALD The emerald. Ezekiel 28:13. May brings us green woods and green fields, but it brings us something greener than these the greenest green in nature the emerald. Somebody has called the e...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 28:11 These verses describe Tyre’s extravagant pretensions (compare vv. Ezekiel 28:4) leading to its utter devastation (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    PROPHETICAL DIRGE ON THE KING OF TYRE, AS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SPIRIT OF CARNAL PRIDE AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF THE WHOLE STATE. THE FALL OF ZIDON, THE MOTHER-CITY. THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL IN CONTRAS...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 28:1 From the city the prophet passes to its ruler, who concentrated in himself whatever was most arrogant and boastful in the temper of his people. He is described here as a" prin...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In Eden — In the midst of all delights. The workmanship — Now the prophet notes their joys, musick, and songs, both to loud, and to softer musick, as the lute, and tabret in the day of their kings cor...

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