They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.
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They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.
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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.
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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.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 28:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 27:26-27 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 merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is among you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
- Ezekiel 27:34 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.
- Job 17:16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
- Job 33:18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Job 33:28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
- Psalms 28:1 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 “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 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 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 grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
- Proverbs 1:12 Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
- Proverbs 28:17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
- Isaiah 38:17 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 sins behind your back.
- Ezekiel 32:18-30 “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 the earth, with those who go down into the pit. Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes. 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 lie still, slain by the sword. “Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them slain, fallen by the sword; whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. “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 lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain. “There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living. They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. “But you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword. “There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. “There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 28:8 They shall bring thee down to the…
Eze 28:8 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.
Ver. 8. They shall bring thee down to the pit.] There shall lie the greatness of the god of Tyre.
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And thou shalt die the death.] Death will make no difference between a prince and a peasant, a lord and a lowly. The mortal scythe is master of the royal sceptre.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain These strangers shall slay thee, which is a blemish…
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.
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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 distresses, then amidst multitude of deep distresses thou shalt meet with more than one death, be often dying.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain They shall bring thee down to the pit,.... Or,…
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 came, Rev 17:8,
and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas; that die in a sea fight, whose carcasses are thrown overboard, and devoured by fishes.
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(k) "ad corruptionem".
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the pit--that is, the bottom of the sea; the…
the pit--that is, the bottom of the sea; the image being that of one conquered in a sea-fight.
the deaths--plural, as various kinds of deaths are meant (Jer 16:4).
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of them . . . slain--literally, "pierced through." Such deaths as those pierced with many wounds die.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. deaths of … slain] The death.
8. deaths of … slain] The death.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) Deaths.—The plural accurately represents the rare form of…
(8) Deaths.—The plural accurately represents the rare form of the original, and indicates emphatically a violent death.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 8, 9. The effect of the Chaldean invasion…
Vers. 8, 9. The effect of the Chaldean invasion was to bring the king down to the nether world of the dead. In the use of the plural "deaths" we have a parallel to the "plurima morris imago" of Virgil ("AEneid," 2:369). And this death was not to be like that of a hero-warrior, but as that of those who are slain in the midst of the seas, who fall, i.e. , in a naval battle, and are cast into the waters. Would he then repeat his boast, I am God?
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General 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)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 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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