Ezekiel 28:13

You had a wonderful life, as though you were in my beautiful garden in Eden. Your clothes were decorated with many [HYP] kinds of very valuable stones— ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, turquoise, and beryl stones. Those stones were set/placed in gold mountings. They were prepared for you on the day that you were born.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

In Context

12“You human, sing a sad/funeral song about the king of Tyre. Say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says: “You thought that [IRO] you were completely perfect, extremely wise and handsome.

14I appointed [DOU] you to be like [MET] a strong angel to guard the people. It was as though I put you on my holy mountain, and you walked among fiery stones.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:8Yahweh God made a park/garden in a place named Eden, which was east of the land of Canaan, and he put there the man that he had created.

Genesis 3:23So Yahweh God expelled the man and his wife from the garden of Eden. Yahweh God had created Adam from the ground, but now he forced him to till that ground so that he could grow food to eat.

Exodus 28:17The skilled workman must fasten four rows of valuable stones onto the pouch. In the first row he must put a red ruby, a yellow topaz, and a red garnet.

Job 28:19The prices of ◄topaz/very valuable yellow stones► from Ethiopia and of pure gold are lower/less than the price of wisdom.

Isaiah 23:16“You harlot, whom people had forgotten, play your harp well, and sing many songs, in order that people will remember you again.”

Isaiah 51:3Some day I, Yahweh, will encourage his descendants again, and I will comfort all the people who live in the ruins of Jerusalem. The desert in that area will become like Eden, like the garden that I, Yahweh, made/planted. All the people there will be joyful and happy; they will thank me and sing.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 28:12-20

Fall of the Prince of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God ; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of… Read the whole commentary →

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