Ezekiel 28:10 - Exposition

The climax comes in the strongest language of Hebrew scorn. As the uncircumcised were to the Israelite ( 1 Samuel 17:36 ; 1 Samuel 31:4 ), so should the King of Tyro, unhonored, unwept, with no outward marks of reverence, be among the great cues of the past who dwell in Hades. Ezekiel returns to the phrase in Ezekiel 31:18 ; Ezekiel 32:24 . The words receive a special force from the fact that the Phoenicians practiced circumcision before their intercourse with the Greeks (Herod; 2.104).