EZEKIEL CHAPTER 28 God's judgment upon the prince of Tyre for his impious pride, EZEKIEL 28:1. A lamentation of his great glory corrupted and fallen through sin, EZEKIEL 28:11. The judgment of Zidon, EZEKIEL 28:20. The restoration of Israel, EZEKIEL 28:24. No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO; of. THE PRINCES; king, whose name was either Ethbaal, or Ithobaal. THINE HEART IS LIFTED UP; thou art waxen proud, and aspirest above all reason, and boastest extravagantly in thyself, state policy, and power. HAST SAID; thought, imagined, or flattered thyself. A GOD; or the mighty and strong... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU ART WISER, in thy own thoughts of thyself, than Daniel, who was then famous for his wisdom, which was imparted to him from Heaven, EZEKIEL 14:20 DANIEL 1:20, DANIEL 2:20,48. THAT THEY CAN HIDE FROM THEE; that any sort of men can conceal, that thine adversaries shall contrive against thee to thy... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THY WISDOM; by thy policy in government, and by thy skill in trading, for he speaks of that kind of prudence to which these names are given. GOTTEN, or MADE, so the word. Riches; power and might, so the Hebrew, as well as wealth and riches, and so the Gallic version reads PUISSANCE; the princes... [ Continue Reading ]
THY GREAT WISDOM: here the eminent degree of this prince's wisdom is owned. AND BY THY TRAFFIC: and might as well be spared, for as it is not in the Hebrew, so it rather obscures than clears the text; let it be read, By thy great wisdom in thy traffic, and it is very plain, and so the French reads i... [ Continue Reading ]
HAST SET THINE HEART: see EZEKIEL 28:2. AS THE HEART OF GOD, who doth, as justly he may, design himself, his own glory, in all he designeth and worketh, and take the glory to himself; thou hast done so too, designed thy own greatness, and gloried in it.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL BRING; cause to come. STRANGERS; a foreign people, called strangers for their multitude, and to intimate how little regard they would have to the Tyrian glory; these strangers were the Babylonian forces. _The terrible of the nations_; a fierce, violent, and cruel nation, HABAKKUK 1:7,8. THE BEA... [ Continue Reading ]
These strangers shall slay thee, which is a blemish to the honour of a king thus to be brought to the pit. THE PIT; a usual periphrasis of death and the grave. THE DEATHS; in the plural, because of the many terrors, dangers, and wounds such meet with, the successive deaths, slain, drowned, eat of fi... [ Continue Reading ]
A cutting taunt, or sarcasm: What will become of thy godship then? Wilt thou then dream of immortality and almighty power, when thine enemy is cutting thy throat? THOU SHALT BE A MAN; appear thou to thyself and others to be a mortal, weak, conquered man, who dieth a sacrifice to the conqueror's prid... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEATHS: EZEKIEL 28:8. A twofold death, temporal and eternal. OF THE UNCIRCUMCISED; of the wicked, or an accursed death: the Jews do express a vile and miserable death thus. Or, the uncircumcised, i.e. heathens, cruel and merciless men, shall slay thee; and this suits with what follows in the ver... [ Continue Reading ]
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A LAMENTATION: see EZEKIEL 27:2. THE KING; called prince, EZEKIEL 28:2. THOU SEALEST UP THE SUM; in the search into the frame of thy government, the management of it, the prosperity thereof, and its glory, power, riches, and confederacies, thou dost think thyself but just to thy kingdom to account i... [ Continue Reading ]
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 it as pleasant, rich, and beautiful as Eden, that place of all desirable enjoyments. THE GARDEN OF... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU ART THE ANOINTED CHERUB: I would rather keep the order of the words in the Hebrew, which the French also keep, Thou art a cherub, anointed, a protector, or one who covereth for defence. For thy wisdom, power, and excellency, like a cherub or angel; for the sacredness of thy person and office, a... [ Continue Reading ]
I think the prophet continues his irony: The prince of Tyre would be a god. Yes. Now God is perfect in all his ways or works; and thou, O prince, wert so too. Wert thou, and from thy original? But remember what a god is he, that hath a beginning, that was created, that at last was found full of iniq... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE MULTITUDE; by, or in, or according to (as the Gallic version) the multitude or greatness of thy trading: in Tyre were merchants that traded in very great adventures, with vast stocks, and in mighty cargoes. WITH VIOLENCE; thy merchants have by craft, where that would, and by violence where cr... [ Continue Reading ]
THINE HEART WAS LIFTED UP: see EZEKIEL 28:2,5. THY BEAUTY: see EZEKIEL 28:12. CONVERTED THY WISDOM; depraved or lost thy wisdom, by reflecting and gazing on thy own glory, state, wealth, and magnificence, and hast forgotten thou art a man; thou exaltest thyself above man, above thy neighbour kings.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou who shouldst have kept all pure in religion, as thou art king, pretending to Divinity, has polluted it. THY SANCTUARIES: still there is, as all along from the 14th verse I think there hath been, much of an irony deriding this proud prince, an allusion to his pretended godship. A god hath his sa... [ Continue Reading ]
All that have heard, seen, or formerly known thy riches, power, allies, wisdom, and vigilance, shall be astonished at thee; be amazed at the certain news of thy great fall, from greatest glory to greatest reproach. THOU SHALT BE A TERROR to all that hear the bruit hereof: THOUGH THOU HAST BEEN A TER... [ Continue Reading ]
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SET THY FACE: see EZEKIEL 20:46, EZEKIEL 21:2. AGAINST ZIDON; neighbour and confederate of Tyre. PROPHESY AGAINST IT; declare her sins, approaching sorrows, and my judgments against her.... [ Continue Reading ]
To these heathen, yet neighbours of the Jews. the prophet might well suppose the name and greatness of the God of Israel was so known, as to command their attention when he speaketh. I AM AGAINST THEE; provoked by thy sins, I am an adversary to thee, and as such determined to proceed with thee. ZIDO... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL SEND; the pestilence is one of God's arrows, and he sends it wheresoever it walks; it is one of his sore judgments, and wasteth where it cometh. PESTILENCE; the most dreadful of diseases, because most deadly, swift, and comes so immediately from the wrath of God offended with men; this pestil... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MORE; the time intended here is, when, after seventy years captivity, loathing themselves for their iniquities, and repenting, they return and settle in their own land. Pricking brier, grieving thorn: by these two metaphors the prophet points out the troublesome neighbours of the Jews. OF ALL THA... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN seventy years is expired, which is the term of their captive state. I SHALL HAVE GATHERED; moved the hearts of my people to come together upon Cyrus's proclamation, and from all parts of that vast kingdom, to prepare for a return to the country most of them never saw: it was God who moved Cyrus... [ Continue Reading ]
SAFELY; which is to be understood comparatively, safer than before; it must be accommodated to the circumstances of human condition; in such safety as excludes continual inward cares, and fears, and perplexities, as it is said of Laish, JUDGES 18:7; or as in the days of Solomon, 1 KINGS 4:25; or as... [ Continue Reading ]