by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
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by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
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With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
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By thy wisdom and by thy discernment thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 28:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 8:17-18 and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.” But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
- Proverbs 18:11 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
- Proverbs 23:4-5 Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
- Ezekiel 29:3 Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’
- Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
- Zechariah 9:2-4 and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise. Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets. Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding…
Eze 28:4 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 very poor, as Socrates, Aristides, Phocion, Ephialtes, Epaminondas, Pelopidas, Lamachus, and others. Fortuna fere favet fatuis: nescio quomodo, bonae mentis soror, est paupertas, saith he in Petronius. {b} Piety goeth oft yoked with poverty.
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{a} Var. Hist., lib. ii.
{b} Eumolpus.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain With thy wisdom; by thy policy in government, and…
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
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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 of Tyre had been prudent, and so increased their power and interest.
Into thy treasures; into both his own private purse, and into the public treasuries too.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast…
With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,.... Through skill in navigation and trade, for which the Tyrians and their princes were famous, they acquired great wealth: so antichrist, by carnal policy, and hellish subtlety, has amassed vast treasures together; the sale of pardons and indulgences has brought immense riches into the pope's coffers:
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; in great quantities; see Rev 18:3.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
Yahweh continues giving Ezekiel his message to the ruler of Tyre.
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General Information:
The words "you" and "your" in these verses refer to the ruler of Tyre.
You have made yourself wealthy with wisdom and skill
The abstract nouns "wisdom" and "skill" can be translated using the adjectives "wise" and "skillful." AT: "You have become wealthy by your own wisdom and skill" or "You have become wealthy by being wise and skillful" (See: Reflexive Pronouns and Abstract Nouns)
obtained gold and silver
"stored up gold and silver"
treasuries
places to store valuable objects and keep them safe
By great wisdom and by your trading, you have multiplied your wealth, so your heart is arrogant because of your wealth
The abstract nouns "wisdom" and "wealth" can be translated using the adjectives "wise" and "wealthy." AT: "By being very wise and by your trading, you have become more and more wealthy, so your heart is arrogant because of how wealthy you are" (See: Abstract Nouns)
your heart is arrogant
Here "heart" represents the will or thoughts of the ruler of Tyre. AT: "you are arrogant" (See: Metonymy)
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wise
gold
silver
heart
arrogant
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