Ezekiel 28:16

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Summary

By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

The multitude

Filled

Zephaniah 1:9

Therefore

Revelation 12:9

O covering

Ezekiel 28:14

Bible References

The multitude

Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.

And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

And he went into the Temple and put out those who were trading there,

And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

Filled

Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.

And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel acts are done in it.

They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

Therefore

So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.

Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.

It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

O covering

I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.