Ezekiel 28:5

His great trading wisdom increased his riches and lifted up his heart in pride. It names wealth-fueled arrogance as the core offense.

Cross-references · 26

• Ps 52:7“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
• Ps 62:10Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
• Ezek 28:2Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
• Hos 13:6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
• Hos 12:7–8A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
• Prov 11:28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
• Jas 4:13–14Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Deut 6:11–12and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
• Job 31:24–25“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
• Prov 26:12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Isa 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
• Deut 8:13–14and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
• Dan 4:30The 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?
• Prov 30:9lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
• Zech 9:3Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
• Luke 12:16–21He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
• 2 Chr 32:23–25Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.
• Ezek 16:49“‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
• 2 Chr 25:19You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”
• Isa 23:8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
• Ezek 27:12–36Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.
• Isa 10:8–14For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
• Isa 23:3On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

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