Ezekiel 28:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin and lead they paid for your wares.

It will come about at the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot’s wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances,
He loves to oppress.

Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling,

and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

Filled

He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose.

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and see the great tumults within her and the oppressions in her midst.

They covet fields and then seize them,
And houses, and take them away.
They

rob a man and his house,

A man and his inheritance.

“For the rich men of the city are full of violence,
Her residents speak lies,
And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

“Because you have looted many nations,
All the remainder of the peoples will loot you—
Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.

“And I will punish on that day all who leap on the temple threshold,
Who fill the house of their lord with violence and deceit.

Therefore

So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

“I will depose you from your office,
And I will pull you down from your station.

The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,

To despise all the honored of the earth.

“Arise and go,
For this is no place of rest
Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction,
A painful destruction.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

O covering

“You were the anointed cherub who covers,
And I placed you there.
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked in the midst of the stones of fire.