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Ezequiel 28:18
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Con la multitud de tus maldades, y con la iniquidad de tu contrataci�n ensuciaste tu santuario: yo pues saqu� fuego de en medio de ti, el cual te consumi�, y p�sete en ceniza sobre la tierra � los ojos de todos los que te miran.
Con la multitud de tus maldades, y con la iniquidad de tus contrataciones profanaste tus santuarios; yo, pues, sacar� fuego de en medio de ti, el cual te consumir�, y te reducir� a ceniza sobre la tierra a los ojos de todos los que te miran.
Con la multitud de tus maldades, y con la iniquidad de tu contrataci�n ensuciaste tu santuario; yo , pues, saqu� fuego de en medio de ti, el cual te consumi�, y te puse en ceniza sobre la tierra a los ojos de todos los que te miran.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
defiled: Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 28:13, Ezekiel 28:14, Ezekiel 28:16
by the iniquity: Mark 8:36
therefore: Ezekiel 5:4, Judges 9:15, Judges 9:20, Amos 1:9, Amos 1:10, Amos 1:14, Amos 2:2, Amos 2:5, Revelation 18:8
I will bring: Malachi 4:3, 2 Peter 2:6
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 28:15 - till iniquity Ezekiel 30:16 - General Zechariah 9:4 - shall
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities,.... Or, "thy palaces", as Kimchi; the palace of the king, and the palaces of the nobles, where much iniquity was committed, and which was the cause of their being defiled or destroyed by the Chaldeans; or it may design their sacred places, their temples, where their gods were worshipped, and idolatry committed. This may be applied to the places of religious worship among the Papists, their churches; which, instead of being adorned, are defiled with their images and image worship, and other acts of superstition and will worship:
by the iniquity of thy traffic; as by bringing in ill gotten goods into the sacred places of Tyre, as they were accounted, so by selling pardons; praying souls out of purgatory for money; by simony, or buying and selling ecclesiastical benefices; and such like spiritual merchandise in Roman churches:
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee; sin, and the punishment of it, as Kimchi; which, for sin committed in the midst of them, should consume as fire; or some from among themselves, that should stir up and cause internal divisions, which should issue in their ruin; as the unclean spirit that shall go out of the mouth of the beast, dragon, and false prophet, to gather the antichristian kings to battle, will end in their ruin, Revelation 16:14. The Targum is,
"I will bring people who are strong as fire, because of the sins of thy pride they shall destroy thee.''
Alexander, when he took Tyre, ordered all the inhabitants to be slain, excepting those that fled to the temples, and the houses to be set on fire u; which literally fulfilled this prophecy; and which may also have respect to the destruction of Rome by fire, because of the sins committed in it, Revelation 18:8:
and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all them that behold thee; the kings and merchants of the earth, who shall stand and look on the city as it is burning, and when reduced to ashes; which denotes the utter destruction of it, Revelation 18:9. The Targum is,
"I will give thee as ashes on the earth, &c.'
and shall be no more accounted of.
u Curtius, Hist. l. 4. c. 4. p. 75.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The dirge of the prince of Tyre, answering to the dirge of the state. The passage is ironical; its main purpose is to depict all the glory, real or assumed, of “the prince of Tyrus,” in order to show how deplorable should be his ruin.
Ezekiel 28:12
To “seal the sum” is to make up the whole measure of perfection. Compare the Septuagint
Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast been in Eden - “Thou” wast etc. The prince of Tyrus is ironically described as the first of creation; but at the same time the parallel is to be maintained in his fall from glory. Like Adam in the enjoyment of paradise, he shall be like Adam in his fall.
Every precious stone - All the stones here named are found in the High priest’s breastplate Exodus 28:17-20, but their order is different, and three stones named in Exodus (the third row) are wanting. The prophet may purposely have varied the description because the number twelve (that of the tribes of Israel) had nothing to do with the prince of Tyrus, and he wished to portray, not a high priest, but a king, having in view a figure which was to a Jew, especially to a priest, the very type of magnificence.
Tabrets - (or, drums) and “pipes” were a common expression for festivity and triumph.
Ezekiel 28:14
Thou art - Better,” Thou” wert. “the anointed cherub that covereth” In the temple the cherubim and all holy things were consecrated and anointed with oil (Exodus 30:26 ff). The prince of Tyre was also anointed as a sovereign priest - covering or protecting the minor states, like the cherubim with outstretched wings covering the mercy-Seat.
Thou wast upon the holy mountain - As the cherub was in the temple on the holy mountain, so the prince of Tyre was presiding over the island-city, rising like a mountain from the deep.
Stones of fire - i. e., bright and shining. Decked with bright jewels, the prince walked among jewels in gorgeous splendor.
Ezekiel 28:15
The “perfection” was false, unsuspected until the “iniquity” which lay beneath was found out.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 28:18. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries — Irony continued. As God, as the angels, as the cherubim, thou must have had thy sanctuaries; but thou hast defiled them: and as Adam, thou hast polluted thy Eden, and hast been expelled from Paradise.
