Ezekiel 28:1

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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

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2“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, ‘I am God, and I sit in the chair of God, in the heart of the sea,’ though you are a man, and not God, and because you have presented your heart as if it were the heart of God:

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Ezekiel 26:1And it happened that, in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 27:27Your riches, and your treasures, and your versatile equipment, your sailors and your navigators, who handle your goods and who were first among your people, likewise your men of war, who were among you, and your entire multitude that is in your midst: they will fall in the heart of the sea on the day of your ruin.

Zechariah 9:2Hamath also is at its limits, and Tyre and Sidon. For, of course, they have assumed themselves to be exceedingly 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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