Ezekiel 28:5
By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic thou have increased thy riches. And thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6Therefore thus says lord LORD: Because thou have set thy heart as the heart of God,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:13and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou have is multiplied,
2 Kings 14:10Thou have indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up. Glory by it, and abide at home, for why should thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
2 Chronicles 32:23And many brought gifts to LORD to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah. So that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
Psalms 52:7Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Psalms 62:11God has spoken once, twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
Proverbs 26:12See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 28:2-11
Fall of the Prince of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God ; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee… Read the whole commentary →