Ezekiel 28 - Introduction

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1.

List five specific predictions made against Tyre. How was each fulfilled?

2.

Who does Ezekiel name specifically as an agent of Tyre's destruction?

3.

What damage did Alexander the Great inflict upon Tyre?

4.

Has the prediction about Tyre never being rebuilt been fulfilled literally?

5.

What effect would the fall of Tyre have on her trading allies?

6.

To what does Ezekiel liken Tyre in his allegorical dirge song?

7.

What comparison is made between Daniel and the king of Tyre?

8.

Why did the king of Tyre consider himself deity?

9.

What comparison is made between the king of Tyre and Adam?

10.

Why do some scholars think that the fall of Satan is being described in Ezekiel 28:11-19?

11.

In what sense did the king of Tyre dwell in the garden of God? In what way could he be compared to a cherub?

12.

What was the mountain of the gods in pagan mythology?

13.

What was the bloody fate of Sidon?

14.

In contrast to the destiny of Tyre and Sidon, what did Ezekiel foresee for the people of God?

15.

How did Tyre and Sidon figure in the ministry of Jesus?