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Yehezkiel 28:2

"Hai anak manusia, katakanlah kepada raja Tirus: Beginilah firman Tuhan ALLAH: Karena engkau menjadi tinggi hati, dan berkata: Aku adalah Allah! Aku duduk di takhta Allah di tengah-tengah lautan. Padahal engkau adalah manusia, bukanlah Allah, walau hatimu menempatkan diri sama dengan Allah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - King;   Pride;   Rulers;   Self-Exaltation;   Tyre;   Scofield Reference Index - Beast (the);   Thompson Chain Reference - Exaltation;   Humility-Pride;   Magistrates;   Nation, the;   Pride;   Rulers;   Self-Exaltation;   Warnings;   The Topic Concordance - Pride/arrogance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;   Providence of God, the;   Sins, National;   Tyre;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Phoenicia;   Ship;   Sin;   Tyre;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Pride;   Religion;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Tyre;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chief;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Tyre;   Wisdom;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Thessalonians Epistles to the;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tyre;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ty'rus;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Isaiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Prince;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - AḥiḴar;   Antichrist;   Hiram, Huram;   Humility;   Tyre;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
"Hai anak manusia, katakanlah kepada raja Tirus: Beginilah firman Tuhan ALLAH: Karena engkau menjadi tinggi hati, dan berkata: Aku adalah Allah! Aku duduk di takhta Allah di tengah-tengah lautan. Padahal engkau adalah manusia, bukanlah Allah, walau hatimu menempatkan diri sama dengan Allah.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hai anak Adam! katakanlah olehmu kepada raja Tsur: Demikianlah firman Tuhan Hua: Tegal hatimu sudah membesarkan dirinya begitu serta katamu: Aku ini ilah serta duduk di arasy Allah di tengah-tengah laut! meskipun engkau manusia dan bukan ilah adamu, maka engkau juga sangkakan budimu seperti budi Allah.

Contextual Overview

1 The worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying: 2 Thou sonne of man, tel the prince of Tyre, thus sayth the Lorde God: Because thou hast a proude heart, and hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seate of God, in the mids of the sea: wher as thou art but a man, and not God, though thou set thyne heart as the heart of God. 3 Beholde, thou thinkest thy selfe wyser then Daniel, that there is no secretes hyd from thee. 4 With thy wisdome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee great welthines, & gathered treasure of siluer & gold. 5 With thy great wysedome and occupying hast thou encreased thy power, and because of thy great riches thy heart is proude. 6 Therfore thus sayth the Lorde God, Forsomuch as thou hast set thyne heart as the heart of God: 7 Behold, I will bring straungers vpon thee, euen the terrible nations, these shal drawe out their swordes vpon the beautie of thy wysdome, and shall defile thy glorie. 8 They shall cast thee downe to the pit, so that thou shalt dye the death of them that be slayne in the mids of the sea. 9 Wilt thou say then before them that slay thee, I am a God? where as thou art but a man, and not God, in the handes of them that slay thee. 10 Die shalt thou the death of the vncircumcized in the handes of the straungers: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lorde God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the prince: Josephus states, on the authority of Menander, who translated the Phoenician annals into Greek, and Philostratus, that this prince was Ithobal.

Because: Ezekiel 28:5, Ezekiel 28:17, Ezekiel 31:10, Deuteronomy 8:14, 2 Chronicles 26:16, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 18:12, Isaiah 2:12, Daniel 5:22, Daniel 5:23, Habakkuk 2:4, 1 Timothy 3:6, 1 Peter 5:5

I am: Ezekiel 28:6, Ezekiel 28:9, Genesis 3:5, Acts 12:22, Acts 12:23, Revelation 17:3

I sit: Ezekiel 28:12-14, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:14, Daniel 4:30, Daniel 4:31, 2 Thessalonians 2:4

in the midst: Heb. in the heart, Ezekiel 27:3, Ezekiel 27:4, Ezekiel 27:26, Ezekiel 27:27, *marg.

yet: Ezekiel 28:9, Psalms 9:20, Psalms 72:6, Psalms 72:7, Isaiah 31:3

thou set: Ezekiel 28:6, 2 Thessalonians 2:4

Reciprocal: Judges 7:2 - Mine own 1 Samuel 17:44 - Come to me 2 Kings 19:22 - exalted thy voice 2 Chronicles 32:25 - his heart Job 40:11 - behold Psalms 12:3 - tongue Psalms 73:6 - Therefore Psalms 87:4 - this man Psalms 119:21 - rebuked Psalms 138:6 - but the proud Proverbs 30:13 - General Isaiah 2:17 - the loftiness Isaiah 10:13 - For he saith Isaiah 23:2 - the isle Isaiah 23:8 - the crowning Isaiah 37:23 - against whom Isaiah 47:7 - thou saidst Isaiah 47:10 - Thy wisdom Jeremiah 9:23 - wise Jeremiah 48:7 - because Jeremiah 50:32 - the most proud Ezekiel 11:5 - Thus have Ezekiel 16:49 - pride Ezekiel 26:17 - strong Ezekiel 28:14 - upon Ezekiel 28:18 - defiled Ezekiel 29:3 - My river Daniel 4:4 - was Daniel 7:4 - and a Daniel 11:12 - his heart Zephaniah 2:15 - I am Zechariah 9:4 - he will Mark 7:24 - Tyre Luke 14:9 - and thou 1 Corinthians 4:7 - why Galatians 6:14 - that I James 3:5 - so Revelation 18:7 - much she

Cross-References

Genesis 24:10
And the seruaunt toke ten Camelles of the Camelles of his maister, & departed (& had of al maner of goods of his maister with him) and so he arose & went to Mesopotamia, vnto ye citie of Nachor.
Genesis 24:29
And Rebecca had a brother called Laban: and he ranne out vnto the man, [euen] to the well.
Genesis 24:50
Then aunswered Laban and Bethuel, saying: This saying is proceeded euen of the Lorde, we can not therefore say vnto thee eyther good or bad.
Genesis 25:20
And Isahac was fourtie yere olde when he toke Rebecca to wyfe, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, and sister to Laban the Syrian.
Genesis 28:5
Thus Isahac sent foorth Iacob: and he went towarde Mesopotamia, vnto Laban, sonne of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebecca Iacob and Esaus mother.
Genesis 28:15
And see, I am with thee, and wyll be thy keper in all [places] whyther thou goest, and wyll bryng thee agayne into this lande: For I wyl not leaue thee, vntyll I haue made good that whiche I haue promised thee.
Genesis 28:20
And Iacob vowed a vowe, saying: Yf God wyll be with me, and wyll kepe me in this iourney in which I go, and wyll geue me bread to eate, and clothes to put on:
Genesis 29:1
Then Iacob went on his iourney, & came into the lande of the people of the east.
Genesis 31:18
And caryed away all his flockes, and all his substaunce whiche he had procured, the increase of his cattell which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isahac his father vnto the lande of Chanaan.
Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercyes and trueth whiche thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunt: for with my staffe came I ouer this Iordane, & nowe haue I gotten two companies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre,.... Whose name was Ethbaal, or Ithobalus, as he is called in Josephus; for that this was Hiram that was in the days of Solomon, and lived a thousand years, is a fable of the Jewish Rabbins, as Jerom relates: this prince of Tyre is thought by some to be an emblem of the devil; but rather of antichrist; and between them there is a great agreement, and it seems to have a prophetic respect to him:

thus saith the Lord God, because thine heart is lifted up: with pride, on account of his wisdom and knowledge, wealth and riches, as later mentioned:

and thou hast said, I am a god; this he said in his heart, in the pride of it, and perhaps expressed it with his lips, and required divine homage to be given him by his subjects, as some insolent, proud, and haughty monarchs have done; in which he was a lively type of antichrist, who shows himself, and behaves, as if he was God, taking upon him what belongs to God; pardoning the sins of men; opening and shutting the gates of heaven; binding men's consciences with laws of his own making, and dispensing with the laws of God and man; and calling himself or suffering himself to be called God, and to be worshipped as such; :-:

I sit in the seat of God; in a place as delightful, safe and happy, as heaven itself, where the throne of God is; so antichrist is said to sit in the temple of God, in the house and church of God; where he assumes a power that does not belong to him, calling himself God's vicegerent, and Christ's vicar; see 2 Thessalonians 2:4, and the Arabic version here renders it "in the house of God": it follows,

in the midst of the seas; surrounded with them as Tyre was, and lord of them as its king was; sending his ships into all parts, and to whom all brought their wares; thus the whore of Rome is said to sit upon many waters, Revelation 17:2:

yet thou art a man, and not God; a frail, weak, mortal man, and not the mighty God, as his later destruction shows; and as the popes of Rome appear to be, by their dying as other men; and as antichrist will plainly be seen to be when he shall be destroyed with the breath of Christ's mouth, and the brightness of his coming:

though thou set thine heart as the heart of God; as if it was as full of wisdom and knowledge as his; and thinkest as well of thyself, that thou art a sovereign as he, and to be feared, obeyed, and submitted to by all.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 28:2. Say unto the prince of Tyrus — But who was this prince of Tyrus? Some think Hiram; some, Sin; some, the devil; others, Ithobaal, with whom the chronology and circumstances best agree. Origen thought the guardian angel of the city was intended.

I am a god — That is, I am absolute, independent, and accountable to none. He was a man of great pride and arrogance.


 
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