Ezekiel 28:8

They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among the nations: they will let loose their swords against your bright wisdom, they will make your glory a common thing.

9Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you.

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Cross References

Job 17:16Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

Job 33:28He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

Psalms 30:9\30:8\My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.

Psalms 88:4\88:3\For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

Proverbs 28:17One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

Ezekiel 27:26Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

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 →

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