Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Ezekiel 28:8
Deaths. — The plural accurately represents the rare form of the original, and indicates emphatically a violent death.
Deaths. — The plural accurately represents the rare form of the original, and indicates emphatically a violent death.
The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is...
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...
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...
PIT. corruption. Hebrew. _shahath._ SLAIN. wounded....
THOU SHALT DIE, &C.— "Thou shalt die the deaths of those who perished in the flood:" _deaths,_ in the plural, as intimating a still farther punishment even after death; such as that impious race exper...
III. THE PRINCE OF TYRE 28:1-19 The three Chapter s dealing with Tyre conclude with a vigorous attack against the prince of Tyre for his claims to deity. This attack is not to be interpreted personall...
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. THEY SHALL BRING THEE DOWN TO THE PIT - i:e., the bottom of the sea; the image...
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...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 28 AGAINST THE RULER OF TYRE – EZEKIEL 28:1-10 V1 Th
לַ † שַּׁ֖חַת יֹֽורִד֑וּךָ וָ מַ֛תָּה מְמֹותֵ֥י...
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...
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...
We have here the continuation of the sad overthrow of Tyre. The Prince of Tyre is particularly noticed, and his daring impiety pointed at. There are no leading characters to discover to whom, or to wh...
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...
THEY SHALL BRING THEE DOWN TO THE PIT,.... Or, "to corruption" k; to the grave, the pit of corruption and destruction; so antichrist shall go into perdition, into the bottomless pit from whence he cam...
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...
_Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel_ In thy own conceit. The fame of Daniel's wisdom was quickly spread over Chaldea, upon his being advanced to several posts of honour and dignity by Nebuchadnezzar....
They shall bring thee, namely, the ruler himself, DOWN TO THE PIT, AND THOU SHALT DIE THE DEATHS OF THEM THAT ARE SLAIN IN THE MIDST OF THE SEAS, the expression denoting that the prince, as it were, d...
GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON THE PRINCE OF TYRE...
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...
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 th...
Ezekiel 28:8 down H3381 (H8686) Pit H7845 die H4191 (H8804) death H4463 slain H2491 midst H3820 seas...
‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because you have set your heart as the heart of the gods, therefore behold I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations, and they will draw their s...
ORACLE AGAINST THE NAGID OF TYRE. Here the King of Tyre is called ‘the Nagid of Tyre'. Nagid (prince) is a title elsewhere restricted in the singular to princes and leaders of Israel. (Some see Daniel...
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...
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...
_Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus._ THE CAUSES OF NATIONAL DECADENCE Who has not sometimes, standing on Brooklyn Bridge, and looking off on the forests of masts, or upon the fleets sailing ba...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 28:1 Although in lament form, this new oracle against Tyre has the familiar pattern of indictment (vv. Ezekiel 28:2) and outcome (vv....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 28:7 Here the agents of divine punishment are unnamed FOREIGNERS. Elsewhere they are identified as the Babylonians (Ezekiel 26:7;...
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...
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...
Now as we get into chapter 28, the attention now is directed against the king of Tyre. Chapter 26 against the city of Tyre, chapter 27 against the merchandising of Tyre, chapter 28 now is directed aga...
Ezekiel 27:26; Ezekiel 27:27; Ezekiel 27:34; Ezekiel 32:18;...