Ezekiel 28 - Introduction
CHAPTER 28 THE ORACLES AGAINST THE NAGID AND KING OF TYRE, AND AGAINST ZIDON.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 28 THE ORACLES AGAINST THE NAGID AND KING OF TYRE, AND AGAINST ZIDON.... [ Continue Reading ]
‘The word of Yahweh came to me again saying, “Son of man, say to the prince (nagid) of Tyre, thus says the Lord Yahweh.” This new oracle comes with a deliberate contrast between ‘a prince' in contrast with a Sovereign Lord. The King of Tyre is to recognise that before the Lord Yahweh he is but a ‘p... [ Continue Reading ]
ORACLE AGAINST THE NAGID OF TYRE. Here the King of Tyre is called ‘the Nagid of Tyre'. Nagid (prince) is a title elsewhere restricted in the singular to princes and leaders of Israel. (Some see Daniel 9:26 as an exception, but that might tell us something about their interpretation of Daniel 9:26).... [ Continue Reading ]
“Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god (or ‘I am El'), I sit in the seat of the gods (or ‘of God'), in the midst of the seas'. Yet you are a man and not a god (or ‘not El'), although you set your heart as the heart of the gods.” There has been much debate about what this k... [ Continue Reading ]
“Behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that they can hide from you.” Again we are confronted by the question as to who is meant by Dani'el (compare on Ezekiel 14:14; Ezekiel 14:20). It is quite possible that Ezekiel is comparing him with that great contemporary figure Daniel (Daniyye... [ Continue Reading ]
“By your wisdom and by your understanding you have obtained for yourself riches, and you have obtained gold and silver into your treasuries. By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.” The wisdom the king and his subj... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because you have set your heart as the heart of the gods, therefore behold I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations, and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and they will mar your brightness. They will bring you down... [ Continue Reading ]
“Will you yet say before him who slays you, ‘I am a god'. But you are a man and not a god in the hands of him who wounds you. You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers. For I have spoken it says the Lord Yahweh.” His protestation to be a god will not help him when he mee... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the King of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.” ‘Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me --.' The introduction demonstrates that this is a new oracle, in the form of a lamentation. ‘King of Tyre' wa... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATION FOR THE KING OF TYRE (EZEKIEL 28:11). This oracle is in the form of a lamentation for the King of Tyre, with his great, exaggerated claims and his certain destruction. There are no good grounds for applying it to Satan except in the sense that extreme evil and arrogance stems from him.... [ Continue Reading ]
“You seal up the sum, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, You were in Eden, the garden of the gods (or ‘of God') Every precious stone was your covering, The sardius, the topaz and the diamond, The beryl, the onyx and the jasper, The sapphire, the carbuncle and the emerald, Gold were the work... [ Continue Reading ]
‘You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created until unrighteousness was found in you.' The theme of Eden continues. The king probably depicting his own continuing perfection. But Ezekiel brings him down to earth and likens him to Adam and connects him with the fall, and then ill... [ Continue Reading ]
“In the huge quantity of your trading they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned.” The vast trading enterprises of Tyre could not be carried out without some violence, both in establishing their colonies and in fighting off rival traders, to say nothing of violence and jealousy... [ Continue Reading ]
“Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendour, I have cast you to the ground, I have exposed you before kings, That they may see you (as you are).” The great advantage Tyre had had did not have good consequences, it corrupted her rather t... [ Continue Reading ]
“By the great quantity of your iniquities, In the wrong behaviour resulting from your trade, You have profaned your sanctuaries, So I have brought forth a fire from the midst of you, It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth, In the sight of all those who saw you. All t... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face towards Zidon, and prophesy against it, and say ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh. Behold I am against you O Zidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of you.' ” ' Zidon is to be included in the condemnation of her co-partner. By what... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ORACLE AGAINST ZIDON (EZEKIEL 28:20). This short oracle against Zidon seems almost tacked on to those to Tyre as a postscript. Perhaps it was in order to make up the number seven, or perhaps it was simply in order to make clear that Zidon shared Tyre's condemnation, but it makes clear that afte... [ Continue Reading ]
“And they will know that I am Yahweh when I have executed judgments in her and am sanctified in her. For I will send pestilence into her, and blood in her streets, and the wounded will fall in the midst of her, with the sword at her from every side, and they will know that I am Yahweh.” Yahweh's ser... [ Continue Reading ]
“And there will be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a grieving thorn from any that are round about them, who did them harm. And they will know that I am Yahweh.” This general statement applies to Zidon, but it also applies to all the nations yet mentioned. All had constantly at... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then will they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. And they will dwell securely in it. Yes they will buil... [ Continue Reading ]