Ezekiel 28:8-10 NIV,NKJV

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:1-19

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, except that which the Lord gives, lead to happiness in this world or in that which is to come. The haughty prince of Tyre thought he was able to protect his people by his own power, and considered himself as equal to the inhabitants of heaven. If it were possible to dwell in the garden of Eden, or... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Ezekiel 28:1-10

God's Judgment upon the Prince of Tyre v. 1. The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, v. 2. Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, the ruler of the great commercial capital arid metropolis, Thus saith the Lord God, He who holds in his hand the fate of empires as well as of individuals, Because thine heart is lifted up, in sinful, blasphemous pride, and thou hast said, I am a God, a claim advanced by many heathen rulers who demanded for themselves divine veneration, I sit in the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ezekiel 28:1-26

HOMILETICAL HINTSOn Ch. 28Ezekiel 28:2-11. “The prophet had the more reason to bring forward the king of Tyre in his fall, as he thus obtains a counterpart to the glorious rise of the kingdom of Israel in Christ” (Hengst.).—“God resisteth the proud, 1 Peter 5:5. Whoever, therefore, is proud has God for his enemy” (Stck.). “I am God—many, indeed, will not speak plainly out; but they bear themselves so as if no one had the right to say anything to them. God may well enough call governors gods,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 28:1-26

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, Ithobal. Great difficulty has been felt with regard to the remarkable description of the king which follows. It is most likely that from his height of inspired vision the prophet saw behind the actually reigning prince the awful personality of Satan, whose instrument Ithobal was. All the language... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 28:9

THE DOOM OF PRIDE‘A man, and no God.’ Ezekiel 28:9 I. At the time of this prophecy Ethbaal was King of Tyre—the representative of the Phœnician Sun-Deity, whose name he bore. Like Herod, he was tempted, in the pride of his heart, to claim the honour which belongs to God alone. He sat on the throne of God, in the midst of the seas. No precious stone from the bed of ocean or the mines of earth was withheld from him. As the cherubim covered the ark with outspread wings, so did he cover the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:1-10

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 9:26 as an exception, but that might tell us something about their interpretation of Daniel 9:26). Thus the use here would seem to be a sarcastic one, comparing him to a Prince of Israel. But in contrast to princes of Israel he saw himself as a god. Thus he is further condemned. The prince... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:6-8

‘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 swords against the beauty of your wisdom and they will mar your brightness. They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die the deaths of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.” His whole attitude towards Yahweh and towards his own exalted status, and that of his city, was such that he... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:9-10

“Will you yet say before him who slays you, ‘I am a god’. But you are a man and not a god in the hands of him who wounds you. You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers. For I have spoken it says the Lord Yahweh.” His protestation to be a god will not help him when he meets his slayers. To them his exalted claims will mean nothing. To them he will be but a man who bleeds. And he will die an ignominious death at their hand, the hand of strangers. To an Israelite to die... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:1-26

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 background similar to Genesis 3. The commercial genius and success of Tyre flushed her with impious pride: she fancied herself divine. But her marvellous “ wisdom” was only commercial wisdom; she had no instinct for the worship of anything but herself and her abounding prosperity: so the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 28:8

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 fish, cast upon shore, and become meat to sea fowl. In the midst of the seas; if literally understood, thou shalt die as other common mariners, and be cast overboard; if figuratively, seas for great... read more

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:1-19

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Ezekiel 28:1-10

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ezekiel 28:1-26

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 28:1-26

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 28:9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:1-10

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:6-8

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:9-10

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 28:1-26

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 28:8

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