Ezekiel 28:8

They shall cast thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the death of them, that are slaine in the middes of the sea.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

7Behold, therefore I wil bring strangers vpon thee, euen the terrible nations: and they shall drawe their swordes against the beautie of thy wisedome, and they shall defile thy brightnes.

9Wilt thou say then before him, that slayeth thee, I am a god? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hands of him that slayeth thee.

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Cross References

Job 17:16They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.

Job 33:28He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Psalms 30:9What profite is there in my blood, when I go downe to the pit? shall the dust giue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth?

Psalms 88:4I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:

Proverbs 28:17A man that doeth violence against the blood of a person, shall flee vnto the graue, and they shall not stay him.

Ezekiel 27:26Thy robbers haue brought thee into great waters: the East winde hath broken thee in the middes of the sea.

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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