Ezekiel 28:15-16 NKJV

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 28:16

Sin and destruction. No doubt the inspired prophet of the Lord saw in the fate of Tyro what was not discernible to worldly and enlightened minds. These would look for political causes and motives and consequences in the rise and fall of states. But Ezekiel saw below the surface. He knew that there was Divine action in and beneath the action of Tyre's enemies; and that there were reasons only recognizable by a reflecting and religious man for the awful disasters which he was commissioned to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 28:11-19

The dirge of the prince of Tyre, answering to the dirge of the state. The passage is ironical; its main purpose is to depict all the glory, real or assumed, of “the prince of Tyrus,” in order to show how deplorable should be his ruin.Ezekiel 28:12To “seal the sum” is to make up the whole measure of perfection. Compare the SeptuagintEzekiel 28:13Thou hast been in Eden - “Thou” wast etc. The prince of Tyrus is ironically described as the first of creation; but at the same time the parallel is to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 28:14-15

Ezekiel 28:14-15. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth The prophet here alludes to the cherubim in the temple of Solomon, which were a part of the ark, being made of beaten gold, and therefore were with it anointed, and were very large, and covered the mercy-seat with their wings. The prince of Tyrus is here compared to one of these, on account of the high power which he bore among men, and his covering or protecting his people by that power. St. Jerome translates the expression, The... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 28:16-17

Ezekiel 28:16-17. By the multitude of thy merchandise, &c. The riches which thy great trade has produced have but increased thy love of gain more and more, and induced thee to commit acts of violence, fraud, and extortion, to make further additions to thy power and riches; therefore I will cast thee out of the mountain of God I will cast thee down to contempt from that super-eminent degree of power and glory to which I had raised thee, and from the exalted station of governing others,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 28:1-19

Judgment on the king of Tyre (28:1-19)The king of Tyre, as representative of the whole nation, is now condemned on account of the pride for which Tyre was famous. Because of the wealth and strength that the country gained through clever trading, Tyre saw itself as all-powerful, answerable to no one. It considered itself to be a god among the nations of the commercial world (28:1-5).Yahweh, the only true God, will tolerate Tyre’s arrogance no longer. The day of Tyre’s judgment has come (6-7).... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 28:15

perfect . . . created. Referring to the period before Satan's fall. See App-19 . iniquity = perversity. Hebrew ' aval, App-44 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 28:16

merchandise = traffic, or going about, as in Ezekiel 28:18 . Hence it meant calumniator (slanderer), in a moral sense. hast sinned = didst sin. sinned. Hebrew. chata '. App-44 . I will cast, he. = I cast thee as profane. Literally I profaned thee. the mountain of God. This Hebrew expression ( har ha'elohim) occurs seven times (28, 13.Exodus 3:1 ; Exodus 4:2 ;; Ezekiel 18:5 ; Ezekiel 24:13 . 1 Kings 19:8 . Psalms 68:15 ). The Massorah gives these to distinguish it from has Jehovah, which... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 28:14-16

Ezekiel 28:14-16. Thou art the anointed cherub, &c.— Peters observes upon these verses, that the king of this proud city, who it seems affected divine honours, is compared to an anointed cherub, or one of the chiefs and rulers of the angelical host, thus remarkably described, as one that was perfect in his ways from the day that he was created, till iniquity was found in him. Eze 28:15 one who had his place of residence upon the holy mountain of God, and walked up and down in the midst of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 28:15

15. perfect—prosperous [GROTIUS], and having no defect. So Hiram was a sample of the Tyrian monarch in his early days of wisdom and prosperity (1 Kings 5:7, &c.). till iniquity . . . in thee—Like the primeval man thou hast fallen by abusing God's gifts, and so hast provoked God's wrath. read more