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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 28:4

Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gold;   Irony;   Money;   Pride;   Tyre;   Scofield Reference Index - Beast (the);   Thompson Chain Reference - Accumulation of Wealth;   Poverty-Riches;   Riches, Earthly;   Wealth;   Wisdom, Worldly;   Wisdom-Folly;   Worldly;   The Topic Concordance - Pride/arrogance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;   Providence of God, the;   Riches;   Tyre;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Phoenicia;   Ship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Tyre;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wisdom;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tyre;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Isaiah;   Treasure;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gold;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
By your wisdom and understanding you have acquired wealth for yourself. You have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.
Hebrew Names Version
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
King James Version
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
English Standard Version
by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
New American Standard Bible
"By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.
New Century Version
Through your wisdom and understanding you have made yourself rich. You have gained gold and silver and have saved it in your storerooms.
Amplified Bible
With your [own] wisdom and with your [own] understanding You have acquired your riches and power And have brought gold and silver into your treasuries;
World English Bible
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
Geneva Bible (1587)
With thy wisedome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten golde and siluer into thy treasures.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.
Legacy Standard Bible
By your wisdom and understandingYou have acquired wealth for yourselfAnd have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.
Berean Standard Bible
By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
Contemporary English Version
Your wisdom has certainly made you rich, because you have storehouses filled with gold and silver.
Complete Jewish Bible
By your wisdom and discernment you have acquired wealth, you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.
Darby Translation
by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
Easy-to-Read Version
Through your wisdom and understanding you have gotten riches for yourself. And you put gold and silver in your treasuries.
George Lamsa Translation
With your understanding you have become powerful, and have gotten silver and gold into your treasures;
Good News Translation
Your wisdom and skill made you rich with treasures of gold and silver.
Lexham English Bible
By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
Literal Translation
With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourself, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
With thy wi?dome & thy vnderstodinge, thou hast gotte the greate welthynesse, and gathered treasure of syluer & golde.
American Standard Version
by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
Bible in Basic English
By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
By thy wisdom and by thy discernment thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
King James Version (1611)
With thy wisedome and with thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and siluer into thy treasures.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
With thy wisdome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee great welthines, & gathered treasure of siluer & gold.
English Revised Version
by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in thi wisdom and prudence thou madist to thee strengthe, and thou gatist to thee gold and siluer in thi tresouris;
Update Bible Version
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
Webster's Bible Translation
With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gained for thee riches, and hast gained gold and silver into thy treasures:
New English Translation
By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself; you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
New King James Version
With your wisdom and your understanding You have gained riches for yourself, And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
New Living Translation
With your wisdom and understanding you have amassed great wealth— gold and silver for your treasuries.
New Life Bible
By your wisdom and understanding you have gathered riches for yourself. You have gathered gold and silver for your store-houses.
New Revised Standard
by your wisdom and your understanding you have amassed wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In thy wisdom and in thine understanding, hast thou gotten thee wealth, - And hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasuries:
Douay-Rheims Bible
In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures.
Revised Standard Version
by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
Young's Literal Translation
By thy wisdom and by thine understanding Thou hast made for thee wealth, And makest gold and silver in thy treasuries.

Contextual Overview

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 And thou, son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord; Because thine heart has been exalted, and thou hast said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet thou art man and not God, though thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge? 4 Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures? 5 By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power. 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since thou hast set thine heart as the hart of God; 7 because of this, behold, I will bring on thee strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge, 8 and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction. And they shall bring thee down; and thou shalt die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea. 9 Wilt thou indeed say, I am God, before them that slay thee? whereas thou art man, and not God. 10 Thou shalt perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised: for I have spoken it, saith he Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 29:3, Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:18, Proverbs 18:11, Proverbs 23:4, Proverbs 23:5, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Habakkuk 1:16, Zechariah 9:2-4

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 17:9 - and shall be Psalms 49:6 - boast Isaiah 23:3 - she is Jeremiah 49:4 - trusted Zechariah 9:3 - heaped Mark 10:24 - trust

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I will give this land to thy seed. And Abram built an altar there to the Lord who appeared to him.
Genesis 28:1
And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites.
Genesis 28:3
And may my God bless thee, and increase thee, and multiply thee, and thou shalt become gatherings of nations.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 28:6
And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and that he charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;
Genesis 28:7
and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.
Genesis 28:8
And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Chanaan were evil before his father Isaac,
Genesis 28:9
Esau went to Ismael, and took Maeleth the daughter of Ismael, the son of Abraam, the sister of Nabeoth, a wife in addition to his other wives.
Genesis 28:12
and dreamed, and behold a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascended and descended on it.
Genesis 28:13
And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,.... Through skill in navigation and trade, for which the Tyrians and their princes were famous, they acquired great wealth: so antichrist, by carnal policy, and hellish subtlety, has amassed vast treasures together; the sale of pardons and indulgences has brought immense riches into the pope's coffers:

and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; in great quantities; see Revelation 18:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.


 
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