Ezekiel 28:1
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _The word of the Lord._] See on Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _The word of the Lord._] See on Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: Ver. 2. _Say unto the pr... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: Ver. 3. _Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel._] That oracular man, who was πανσοφος, as one saith of Homer, και παντα ανθρωπεια επισταμενος, the most wise and knowing man alive. His name was now up at Babylon; and... [ Continue Reading ]
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: Ver. 4. _With thy wisdom thou hast gotten thee riches._] Which yet is not every wise man's happiness. Aelian _a_ observeth that the wisest and best of the Grecians were ver... [ Continue Reading ]
By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: Ver. 5. _Thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches._] Like as the higher the flood riseth, the higher also doth the boat that floateth thereon. A small blast will blow... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; Ver. 6. _Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God._] Thou thinkest thy wisdom to be divine, and thyself the only one. The Tyrians were famous for their great wisdom, Zec 9:2 and they are said to b... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. Ver. 7. _Behold, therefore I will briny strangers upon thee._] Who shall not at all regard thy great wisdom, but... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of [them that are] slain in the midst of the seas. Ver. 8. _They shall bring thee down to the pit._] There shall lie the greatness of the god of Tyre. _ And thou shalt die the death._] Death will make no difference between a prin... [ Continue Reading ]
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I [am] God? but thou [shalt be] a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. Ver. 9. _Wilt thou say before him that slayeth thee, I am God?_] That will prove a poor plea, and thou wilt soon be confuted, as afterwards great Alexander confut... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 10. _Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised._] Not only a temporal, but an eternal death, as they must needs do that are out of the covenant of grace, whereof circumcisio... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 11. _Moreover the word._] See on Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Ver. 12. _Take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre._] Who shall have little leisure to lament for himself, his destruction shall be... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire._ Ver. 14. _Thou art the anointed cherub._] Or, Thou art a cherub ever since I anointed thee for protector. _a_ As the ch... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. Ver. 15. _Thou wast perfect in thy ways_] As the evil angels also were; but now it is otherwise. Heaven spued out them in the very first act of their sin, and soon after they were created. Look tho... [ Continue Reading ]
_By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire._ Ver. 16. _By the multitude of thy merchan... [ Continue Reading ]
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Ver. 17. _Thine heart, &c._] _Fastus inest pulchris._ By reason of thy brightness.] Thine own splend... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. Ver. 18. _Thou hast def... [ Continue Reading ]
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt] thou [be] any more. Ver. 19. _Thou shalt be a terror._] As kings exceed all others in glory, so their fall is oft with so great ignominy, that they become a wonder and a terror to all peo... [ Continue Reading ]
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 20. _Again the word of the Lord._] See Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, Ver. 21. _Set thy face against Zidon._] An ancient and eminent city of Phoenicia, little inferior to Tyre: in Joshua it is called "Zidon the great." Jos 11:8 A very superstitious place, and a great enemy to God's people.... [ Continue Reading ]
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. Ver. 22. _Behold, I am against thee._] Heb., I against thee -... [ Continue Reading ]
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 23. _For I will send into her._] These are God's evil angels. _ And the wounded shall be judged i... [ Continue Reading ]
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor [any] grieving thorn of all [that are] round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD. Ver. 24. _And there shall be no more a pricking brier._] For God will take away the Canaanite out of t... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. Ver. 25. _Then shall they dwell in their lan... [ Continue Reading ]
And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God. Ver. 26. _And they shall dwell safely therei... [ Continue Reading ]