Ezekiel 28:5
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:13and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
2 Kings 14:10You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
2 Chronicles 32:23Many brought offerings to Jerusalem for the LORD and valuable gifts for Hezekiah king of Judah, and from then on he was exalted in the eyes of all nations.
Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
Psalms 62:11God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,
Proverbs 26:12Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for 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 →