God’s Word Translation
Ezekiel 28:15
15Your behavior was perfect from the time you were created, until evil was found in you.
Ezekiel 28:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
- New International Version (NIV)You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.
Context of Ezekiel 28:15
13You were in Eden, God’s garden. You were covered with every kind of precious stone: red quartz, topaz, crystal, beryl, onyx, gray quartz, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your settings and your sockets were made of gold when you were created. 14I appointed an angel to guard you. You were on God’s holy mountain. You walked among fiery stones. Your behavior was perfect from the time you were created, until evil was found in you. 16You traded far and wide. You learned to be violent, and you sinned. So I threw you down from God’s mountain in disgrace. The guardian angel forced you out from the fiery stones. 17You became too proud because of your beauty. You wasted your wisdom because of your greatness. So I threw you to the ground and left you in front of the kings so that they could see you.
Read all of Ezekiel 28Ezekiel 28:15 word by word
תָּמִ֤ים אַתָּה֙ בִּדְרָכֶ֔יךָ מִיּ֖וֹם הִבָּֽרְאָ֑ךְ עַד־נִמְצָ֥א עַוְלָ֖תָה בָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 28:15
- Ezekiel 28:3You think that you are wiser than Daniel and that no secret can be hidden from you.
- Ezekiel 27:3Tyre is the city at the entrance to the sea. It is the merchant to the nations. Say to Tyre, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: Tyre, you used to brag about your perfect beauty.
- Ezekiel 28:17You became too proud because of your beauty. You wasted your wisdom because of your greatness. So I threw you to the ground and left you in front of the kings so that they could see you.
- Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the domestic animals all over the earth, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”
- Genesis 6:5The Lord saw how evil humans had become on the earth. All day long their deepest thoughts were nothing but evil.
- Proverbs 14:34Righteousness lifts up a nation, but sin is a disgrace in any society.
- Ecclesiastes 7:29I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways ⌞to avoid being decent⌟.”
- Isaiah 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, you morning star, son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you conqueror of nations!
- Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Because we have sinned, it has been disastrous for us.
- Romans 7:9At one time I was alive without any laws. But when this commandment came, sin became alive
- 2 Peter 2:4God didn’t spare angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, where he has secured them with chains of darkness and is holding them for judgment.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 28:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Thou wast perfect in thy ways - The irony seems still to be kept up. Thou hast been like the angels, like Moses, like the cherubs, like Adam, like God, till thy iniquity was found out.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11-19Verses 11-19 The dirge of the prince of Tyre, answering to the dirge of the state. The passage is ironical; its main purpose is to depict all the glory, real or assumed, of “the prince of Tyrus,” in order to show how deplorable should be his ruin. Ezekiel 28:12 To “seal the sum” is to make up the whole measure of perfection. Compare the Septuagint Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden - “Thou” wast etc. The prince of Tyrus is ironically described as the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-18This sarcastic description of the prince of Tyre's greatness and pride sets him up for his fall, similar to the fall of humanity (Genesis 3). Like Adam, the king of Tyre's supposedly blameless state was temporary and ended abruptly when evil was found in him. His wealth and dishonest trade led him to violence (compare Ezekiel 26:17). Someone who claimed to be greater than Adam could experience a similar fall from favor and be banished from the mountain of…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. perfect--prosperous [Grotius], and having no defect. So Hiram was a sample of the Tyrian monarch in his early days of wisdom and prosperity (1Ki 5:7, &c.). till iniquity ... in thee--Like the primeval man thou hast fallen by abusing God's gifts, and so hast provoked God's wrath.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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