Ezekiel 28:1

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

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2Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:

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Ezekiel 26:1Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 27:27Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.

Zechariah 9:2As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 28:1

In this chapter we have, I. A prediction of the fall and ruin of the king of Tyre, who, in the destruction of that city, is particularly set up as a mark for God's arrows, ver. 1-10 . II. A lamentation for the king of Tyre, when he has thus fallen, though he falls by his own iniquity, ver. 11-19 . III. A prophecy of the destruction of Zidon, which as in the neighbourhood of Tyre and had a dependence upon it, ver. 20-23 . IV. A promise of the restoration of the Israel of God, though in the day of their calamity… Read the whole commentary →

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