Ezekiel 28:2

The prince of Tyre claims to be a god enthroned in the sea, but God reminds him he is only a man. It exposes the fundamental sin of pride that usurps God's place.

Cross-references · 26

• Ezek 28:9Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
• 2 Th 2:4he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
• Isa 14:13–14You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
• Ps 9:20Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
• Prov 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
• Isa 31:3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
• Acts 12:22–23The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
• Isa 2:12For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
• Gen 3:5for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
• Dan 4:30–31The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
• Dan 5:22–23You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
• Ezek 28:12–14Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
• Prov 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
• Ezek 27:26–27Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
• Ezek 28:17Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
• Deut 8:14then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
• Hab 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
• Ezek 28:5–6by your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches —
• 2 Chr 26:16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
• Rev 17:3He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Ezek 27:3–4and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.
• Ezek 31:10Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
• 1 Tim 3:6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
• Ps 72:6–7He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
• Ps 82:6–7I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

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