Ezekiel 28:8

They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

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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 will bring strangers upon you, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

9Will you yet say before him that slays you, I am God? but you shall be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slays you.

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Cross References

Job 17:16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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

Psalms 30:9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Psalms 88:4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:

Proverbs 28:17A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

Ezekiel 27:26Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.

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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