Ezekiel 28:16

Then you became busy trading things, and you started to act violently, and you sinned. So I caused you to be disgraced; and the angel who was guarding you forced you to leave my holy mountain, forced you to leave your place among those fiery stones.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

In Context

15You were completely good in all that you did, from the day that you were created/born, until you started to do wicked things.

17You were extremely proud because you were very handsome. Because you loved beautiful things, you did things that wise people do not do. So I threw you to the ground, and allowed other kings who saw you to laugh at you.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:24After Yahweh expelled them, on the east side of the garden he placed ◄cherubim/creatures with wings► and an angel holding a flaming sword which flashed back and forth. He did that in order to block the entrance to the garden, so that people could not go back to the tree that enables people who eat its fruit to live forever.

Leviticus 18:24“Do not ◄defile yourselves/cause yourselves to become unacceptable to me► in any of those ways, because doing those things is how the people of the nations that I expelled as you advanced became ◄unacceptable to me/defiled►.

Isaiah 23:9It was the Commander of the armies of angels who did it; he did it in order to cause you people in Tyre not to be proud any more, to humiliate you men who are honored all over the world.

Ezekiel 8:17He said to me, “You human, you see [RHQ] what they are doing. Do you think that it is not important that these men of Judah are doing these detestable things here? But they are doing other terrible things. They are acting violently throughout their country, and continually causing me to be angry. Look at them! They are insulting me by their actions [IDM]!

Ezekiel 28:14I 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.

Amos 3:9I said this to the leaders of Samaria (OR, Yahweh said this to me): Send this message to the leaders [MET] in Ashdod city and to Egypt: “Come to the hills of Samaria and see the way that their ◄leaders/wealthy people► are causing people in that city to be terrified, and the way that they are causing the people to suffer!”

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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