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Geneva Bible

Ezekiel 28:4

With thy wisedome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten golde and siluer into 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;
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures?
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 The woorde of the Lorde came againe vnto me, saying, 2 Sonne of ma, say vnto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saieth the Lord God, Because thine heart is exalted, & thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God in ye mids of the sea, yet thou art but a man & not God, and though thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God, 3 Behold, thou art wiser then Daniel: there is no secrete, that they can hide from thee. 4 With thy wisedome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten golde and siluer into thy treasures. 5 By thy great wisedome and by thine occupying hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches. 6 Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God, 7 Behold, therefore I wil bring strangers vpon thee, euen the terrible nations: and they shall drawe their swordes against the beautie of thy wisedome, and they shall defile thy brightnes. 8 They shall cast thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the death of them, that are slaine in the middes of the sea. 9 Wilt thou say then before him, that slayeth thee, I am a god? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hands of him that slayeth thee. 10 Thou shalt die the death of the vncircumcised by the hands of stragers: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

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 vnto Abram, and said, Vnto thy seede will I giue this land. And there builded he an altar vnto the Lord, which appeared vnto him.
Genesis 28:1
Then Izhak called Iaakob and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto him, Take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 28:3
And God all sufficient blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, and multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people,
Genesis 28:5
Thus Izhak sent forth Iaakob, & he went to Padan Aram vnto Laban sonne of Bethuel the Aramite, brother to Rebekah, Iaakobs and Esaus mother.
Genesis 28:6
When Esau sawe that Izhak had blessed Iaakob, and sent him to Padan Aram, to set him a wife thence, and giuen him a charge when he blessed him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,
Genesis 28:7
And that Iaakob had obeyed his father & his mother, and was gone to Padan Aram:
Genesis 28:8
Also Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan displeased Izhak his father,
Genesis 28:9
Then went Esau to Ishmael, & tooke vnto the wiues, which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, the sister of Nabaioth, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:12
Then he dreamed, & behold, there stoode a ladder vpon the earth, and the top of it reached vp to heauen: and loe, the Angels of God went vp and downe by it.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stoode aboue it, & sayd, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak: the land, vpon the which thou sleepest, wil I giue thee and thy seede.

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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