7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness.
8They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.
9Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
10You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness.
8 They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.
9 Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
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7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
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7 Therefore, behold, 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.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee: I am God? But thou art man, and not God, in the hand of them that defile thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken, saith the Lord GOD.'
Ezekiel 31:12(v7)Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the…
Ezekiel 31:18(v10)“ ‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the…
Ezekiel 28:2(v9)“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the…
Ezekiel 30:11(v7)He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt,…
Ezekiel 32:12(v7)I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty. They are all the ruthless of the nations. They will bring the pride of…
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Ezekiel 32:19(v10)Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
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1 Samuel 17:36(v10)Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of…
Psalms 82:7(v9)Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”
Isaiah 31:3(v9)Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall…
Ezekiel 27:26-27(v8)Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. Your riches, your wares, your…
Ezekiel 27:34(v8)In the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you.
Ezekiel 32:21(v10)The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised…
Habakkuk 1:6-8(v7)For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places…
Philippians 3:3(v10)For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
Leviticus 26:41(v10)I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they…
Deuteronomy 28:49-50(v7)Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not…
Job 17:16(v8)Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Job 33:18(v8)He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Job 33:28(v8)He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
Psalms 28:1(v8)To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalms 30:9(v8)“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Psalms 55:15(v8)Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
Psalms 88:4-5(v8)I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the…
Proverbs 1:12(v8)Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Proverbs 28:17(v8)A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
Isaiah 23:8-9(v7)Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth? Yahweh…
Isaiah 25:3-4(v7)Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you. For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a…
Isaiah 38:17(v8)Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my…
Jeremiah 6:10(v10)To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word…
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Jeremiah 25:9(v10)behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my…
Ezekiel 11:9(v10)“I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
Ezekiel 26:7-14(v7)“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with…
Ezekiel 28:7(v10)therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your…
Ezekiel 32:18-30(v8)“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of…
Ezekiel 32:24-30(v10)“There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the…
Ezekiel 44:7(v10)in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my…
Ezekiel 44:9(v10)The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners…
Daniel 4:31-32(v9)While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has…
Daniel 5:23-30(v9)but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords,…
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Amos 3:6(v7)Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
John 8:24(v10)I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
Acts 7:51(v10)“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Acts 12:22-23(v9)The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the…
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn v10Like the rest of the heathen and infidels, which…
Like the rest of the heathen and infidels, which are God’s enemies.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv7–10Eze 28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon…
Eze 28:7 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 grasp after thy wealth, and suck thy blood for it. Neither will they favour thee the more because thou art a king, but slay thee the rather, and say, Hunc ipsum quaerimus, This we seek ourselves, This is the right bird, as that soldier said who slew the most valiant King of Sweden at the battle of Lutzen.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv7–10Will bring; cause to come.
Will bring; cause to come.
Strangers; a foreign people, called strangers for their multitude, and to intimate how little regard they would have to the Tyrian glory; these strangers were the Babylonian forces. The terrible of the nations; a fierce, violent, and cruel nation, Hab 1:7,8.
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The beauty of thy wisdom; those beautiful things, in which thy wisdom appeared; either thy noble, regular, and strong buildings, or thy beautiful well-stored arsenal and army, or the unparalleled rarities, which all but rudest soldiers would esteem, and spare these monuments of thy wisdom. Defile; pour contempt and stain.
Thy brightness; thy royal dignity, depose thee from thy throne, and kill thy authority and thy person.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv7–10Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee,.... The…
Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee,.... The Chaldean army, who not only lived at a distance from Tyre, but were unknown to them, not trading with them; nor are they mentioned among the merchants of Tyre: these, in the mystical sense, may design the angels that shall pour out the vials on the antichristian states, the kings of Protestant nations:
the terrible of the nations; as the Babylonians were, very formidable to the world, having conquered many countries, and their armies consisting of men of all nations, mighty, courageous, and expert in war; and alike formidable will the Protestant princes be to the antichristian powers, when they shall with their united strength attack them:
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and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom; their beautiful city and spacious buildings, the palaces of their king and nobles, their walls and towers erected with so much art and skill; or their forces, the men of war within their city, which made their beauty complete, so well skilled in military affairs, Eze 27:10, or their ships, and the merchandise of them, and the curious things brought in them: even everything that was rich and valuable, the effect of their art and wisdom: all which may be applied to the city of Rome, when it will be taken, ransacked, and burnt, Rev 18:8,
and they shall defile thy brightness; profane thy crown, cast down thy throne, destroy thy kingdom, and all that is great and glorious in thee; thus the whore of Rome shall be made bare and desolate, Rev 17:16. The Targum renders it,
"the brightness of thy terror;''
which shall no more strike the nations, or affect them.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn vv7, 10The beauty - Those beautiful things, in which thy…
The beauty - Those beautiful things, in which thy wisdom appeared.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv7, 9, 10Verse 7. I will bring strangers upon thee] The…
Verse 7. I will bring strangers upon thee] The Chaldeans.
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn v9Eze 28:9. Wilt thou yet say — Or, Wilt…
Eze 28:9. Wilt thou yet say — Or, Wilt thou then say, before him that slayeth thee, I am God — Nothing can be more finely expressed than this: the prince of Tyrus thought himself, as a god, as invincible, as secure from all harm; God therefore, by his prophet, asks him here if he would have these proud thoughts, if he would think of himself as a god, when he found himself in his enemy’s power, just going to be slain. The question is most sharp and cutting: it sets the folly of his insolent pride in the strongest light; for surely he could not boast of being a god, when he was to fall by the sword of a man; and whatever proud thoughts he now entertained of himself, they certainly would be changed when he saw the sword of his enemy lifted up to slay him. So Plutarch tells us of Alexander, that “he vainly affected to be thought Jupiter’s son, and next in honour to Bacchus and Hercules: yet when he saw the blood run out of a wound he had received, which at the same time gave him much pain, he confessed that was not such blood as Homer said issued from the immortal gods.” — Lib. 2, De Alexandri fortuna. This whole chapter, as well as the foregoing one, is exceedingly fine, both as to the style and composition.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn v10Uncircumcised. The Jews deemed this a disgrace, 1 Kings…
Uncircumcised. The Jews deemed this a disgrace, 1 Kings xxxi. 4. The king would be exposed to eternal death, being devoid of faith, &c. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv7–10strangers . . . terrible of the nations--the Chaldean…
therefore--apodosis.
strangers . . . terrible of the nations--the Chaldean foreigners noted for their ferocity (Eze 30:11; Eze 31:12).
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against the beauty of thy wisdom--that is, against thy beautiful possessions acquired by thy wisdom on which thou pridest thyself (Eze 28:3-5).
defile thy brightness--obscure the brightness of thy kingdom.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv7, 97. The terrible of the nations — This is…
7. The terrible of the nations — This is a strong name for the Chaldean army, which shall destroy the beautiful works produced by Tyrian wisdom and prove that the prince is not God, but man (Eze_30:11; Eze_32:12; Hab_1:6-10). She is intrenched “in the heart of the seas” (Eze_28:8), but that which she supposes to be her greatest protection shall be her grave.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv8–108. deaths of … slain] The death.
8. deaths of … slain] The death.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv7–10(7) Against the beauty of thy wisdom.—The figure seems…
(7) Against the beauty of thy wisdom.—The figure seems incongruous, but it is to be remembered that the expression is only a form of designating Tyre itself. The description of the Chaldæans as “the terrible of the nations” is repeated in Eze_30:11; Eze_31:12 (comp. also Eze_26:7 and Isa_47:6; Hab_1:6). The term, however, is by no means necessarily confined to them.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv7, 8, 10I will bring strangers, etc. These are, of course,…
I will bring strangers, etc. These are, of course, the hosts of many nations that made up the Chaldean army. (comp. the parallel of Eze_30:11 and Eze_31:12) The beauty of thy wisdom is that of the city on which the prince looked as having been produced by his policy.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v8General Information:
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Yahweh continues giving Ezekiel his message to the ruler of Tyre.
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The word "They" refers to foreign armies. The words "you" and "your" in these verses refer to the king of Tyre.
down to the pit
Here "the pit" refers to the grave or to hell. AT: "down to the grave" (See: Metonymy)
in the heart of the seas
"in the middle of the seas"
Will you truly say, "I am a god" to the face of one who kills you?
This question expects a negative answer to emphasize the irony when one who claims to be a god is destroyed by men. It can be translated as a statement. AT: "You will not say 'I am a god' to the face of one who kills you!" (See: Rhetorical Question and Irony)
to the face of
Here the face represents being in the presence of another person. AT: "in the presence of" or "before" (See: Synecdoche)
in the hand of
Here being in the hand of someone represents being under their control. AT: "under the control of" (See: Metaphor)
by the hand of foreigners
Here "hand" is a metonym for the actions of the foreigners' army. AT: "by an army of foreigners" (See: Metonymy)
this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration
Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 5:11. AT: "this is what the Lord Yahweh has declared" or "this is what I, the Lord Yahweh, have declared" (See: First, Second, or Third Person)
Tyndale Open Study Notes2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0On vv8, 1028:8 The clearest demonstration that the prince of Tyre…
28:8 The clearest demonstration that the prince of Tyre was a mortal man and not a divine being came when he was put to death by the Babylonians. His final resting place would not be in the heights with the gods, but in the pit, the residence of the dead. Like the city of Tyre, the prince of Tyre would die in the heart of the sea (cp. 27:26-27).
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v10 Like the rest of the heathen and infidels, which…
Like the rest of the heathen and infidels, which are God’s enemies.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv7–10 Eze 28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon…
Eze 28:7 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 grasp after thy wealth, and suck thy blood for it. Neither will they favour thee the more because thou art a king, but slay thee the rather, and say, Hunc ipsum quaerimus, This we seek ourselves, This is the right bird, as that soldier said who slew the most valiant King of Sweden at the battle of Lutzen.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv7–10 Will bring; cause to come.
Will bring; cause to come.
Strangers; a foreign people, called strangers for their multitude, and to intimate how little regard they would have to the Tyrian glory; these strangers were the Babylonian forces. The terrible of the nations; a fierce, violent, and cruel nation, Hab 1:7,8.
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The beauty of thy wisdom; those beautiful things, in which thy wisdom appeared; either thy noble, regular, and strong buildings, or thy beautiful well-stored arsenal and army, or the unparalleled rarities, which all but rudest soldiers would esteem, and spare these monuments of thy wisdom. Defile; pour contempt and stain.
Thy brightness; thy royal dignity, depose thee from thy throne, and kill thy authority and thy person.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv7–10 Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee,.... The…
Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee,.... The Chaldean army, who not only lived at a distance from Tyre, but were unknown to them, not trading with them; nor are they mentioned among the merchants of Tyre: these, in the mystical sense, may design the angels that shall pour out the vials on the antichristian states, the kings of Protestant nations:
the terrible of the nations; as the Babylonians were, very formidable to the world, having conquered many countries, and their armies consisting of men of all nations, mighty, courageous, and expert in war; and alike formidable will the Protestant princes be to the antichristian powers, when they shall with their united strength attack them:
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and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom; their beautiful city and spacious buildings, the palaces of their king and nobles, their walls and towers erected with so much art and skill; or their forces, the men of war within their city, which made their beauty complete, so well skilled in military affairs, Eze 27:10, or their ships, and the merchandise of them, and the curious things brought in them: even everything that was rich and valuable, the effect of their art and wisdom: all which may be applied to the city of Rome, when it will be taken, ransacked, and burnt, Rev 18:8,
and they shall defile thy brightness; profane thy crown, cast down thy throne, destroy thy kingdom, and all that is great and glorious in thee; thus the whore of Rome shall be made bare and desolate, Rev 17:16. The Targum renders it,
"the brightness of thy terror;''
which shall no more strike the nations, or affect them.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv7, 10 The beauty - Those beautiful things, in which thy…
The beauty - Those beautiful things, in which thy wisdom appeared.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv7, 9, 10 Verse 7. I will bring strangers upon thee] The…
Verse 7. I will bring strangers upon thee] The Chaldeans.
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v9 Eze 28:9. Wilt thou yet say — Or, Wilt…
Eze 28:9. Wilt thou yet say — Or, Wilt thou then say, before him that slayeth thee, I am God — Nothing can be more finely expressed than this: the prince of Tyrus thought himself, as a god, as invincible, as secure from all harm; God therefore, by his prophet, asks him here if he would have these proud thoughts, if he would think of himself as a god, when he found himself in his enemy’s power, just going to be slain. The question is most sharp and cutting: it sets the folly of his insolent pride in the strongest light; for surely he could not boast of being a god, when he was to fall by the sword of a man; and whatever proud thoughts he now entertained of himself, they certainly would be changed when he saw the sword of his enemy lifted up to slay him. So Plutarch tells us of Alexander, that “he vainly affected to be thought Jupiter’s son, and next in honour to Bacchus and Hercules: yet when he saw the blood run out of a wound he had received, which at the same time gave him much pain, he confessed that was not such blood as Homer said issued from the immortal gods.” — Lib. 2, De Alexandri fortuna. This whole chapter, as well as the foregoing one, is exceedingly fine, both as to the style and composition.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v10 Uncircumcised. The Jews deemed this a disgrace, 1 Kings…
Uncircumcised. The Jews deemed this a disgrace, 1 Kings xxxi. 4. The king would be exposed to eternal death, being devoid of faith, &c. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv7–10 strangers . . . terrible of the nations--the Chaldean…
therefore--apodosis.
strangers . . . terrible of the nations--the Chaldean foreigners noted for their ferocity (Eze 30:11; Eze 31:12).
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against the beauty of thy wisdom--that is, against thy beautiful possessions acquired by thy wisdom on which thou pridest thyself (Eze 28:3-5).
defile thy brightness--obscure the brightness of thy kingdom.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv7, 9 7. The terrible of the nations — This is…
7. The terrible of the nations — This is a strong name for the Chaldean army, which shall destroy the beautiful works produced by Tyrian wisdom and prove that the prince is not God, but man (Eze_30:11; Eze_32:12; Hab_1:6-10). She is intrenched “in the heart of the seas” (Eze_28:8), but that which she supposes to be her greatest protection shall be her grave.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv8–10 8. deaths of … slain] The death.
8. deaths of … slain] The death.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv7–10 (7) Against the beauty of thy wisdom.—The figure seems…
(7) Against the beauty of thy wisdom.—The figure seems incongruous, but it is to be remembered that the expression is only a form of designating Tyre itself. The description of the Chaldæans as “the terrible of the nations” is repeated in Eze_30:11; Eze_31:12 (comp. also Eze_26:7 and Isa_47:6; Hab_1:6). The term, however, is by no means necessarily confined to them.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv7, 8, 10 I will bring strangers, etc. These are, of course,…
I will bring strangers, etc. These are, of course, the hosts of many nations that made up the Chaldean army. (comp. the parallel of Eze_30:11 and Eze_31:12) The beauty of thy wisdom is that of the city on which the prince looked as having been produced by his policy.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v8 General Information:
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Yahweh continues giving Ezekiel his message to the ruler of Tyre.
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General Information:
The word "They" refers to foreign armies. The words "you" and "your" in these verses refer to the king of Tyre.
down to the pit
Here "the pit" refers to the grave or to hell. AT: "down to the grave" (See: Metonymy)
in the heart of the seas
"in the middle of the seas"
Will you truly say, "I am a god" to the face of one who kills you?
This question expects a negative answer to emphasize the irony when one who claims to be a god is destroyed by men. It can be translated as a statement. AT: "You will not say 'I am a god' to the face of one who kills you!" (See: Rhetorical Question and Irony)
to the face of
Here the face represents being in the presence of another person. AT: "in the presence of" or "before" (See: Synecdoche)
in the hand of
Here being in the hand of someone represents being under their control. AT: "under the control of" (See: Metaphor)
by the hand of foreigners
Here "hand" is a metonym for the actions of the foreigners' army. AT: "by an army of foreigners" (See: Metonymy)
this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration
Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 5:11. AT: "this is what the Lord Yahweh has declared" or "this is what I, the Lord Yahweh, have declared" (See: First, Second, or Third Person)
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pit
die
face
God
hand
circumcise
declare
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv8, 10 28:8 The clearest demonstration that the prince of Tyre…
28:8 The clearest demonstration that the prince of Tyre was a mortal man and not a divine being came when he was put to death by the Babylonians. His final resting place would not be in the heights with the gods, but in the pit, the residence of the dead. Like the city of Tyre, the prince of Tyre would die in the heart of the sea (cp. 27:26-27).
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