Ezekiel 28:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּרֹ֣ב רְכֻּלָּתְךָ֗ מָל֧וּ תוֹכְךָ֛ חָמָ֖ס וַֽתֶּחֱטָ֑א וָאֶחַלֶּלְךָ֩ מֵהַ֨ר אֱלֹהִ֤ים וָֽאַבֶּדְךָ֙ כְּר֣וּב הַסֹּכֵ֔ךְ מִתּ֖וֹךְ אַבְנֵי־אֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

bə-rōḇ rəḵullātəḵā mālû tôḵəḵā ḥāmās wa-tteḥĕṭāʾ wā-ʾăḥalelḵā mē-har ʾĕlōhîm wā-ʾăʾabbedḵā kərûḇ ha-ssōḵēḵ mi-ttôḵ ʾaḇnê-ʾēš

Grammar Details

• *bə-rōḇ*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - by abundance of
• *rəḵullātəḵā*: noun feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your merchandise/trading
• *mālû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they filled
• *tôḵəḵā*: noun masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your midst
• *ḥāmās*: noun masculine singular - violence
• *wa-tteḥĕṭāʾ*: conjunction + qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - and you sinned
• *wā-ʾăḥalelḵā*: conjunction + piel imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - and I profaned you
• *mē-har*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - from the mountain of
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun masculine plural - God
• *wā-ʾăʾabbedḵā*: conjunction + piel imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - and I destroyed you
• *kərûḇ*: noun masculine singular - cherub
• *ha-ssōḵēḵ*: definite article + qal participle masculine singular - the covering/guardian
• *mi-ttôḵ*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - from the midst of
• *ʾaḇnê*-*ʾēš*: noun feminine plural construct + noun feminine singular - stones of fire

Word Meanings

• *rōḇ*: abundance/greatness/multitude
• *rəḵullāh*: merchandise/traffic/trading
• *ḥāmās*: violence/wrong/cruelty
• *ʾăḥalelḵā*: I profaned/defiled/treated as common
• *ʾăʾabbedḵā*: I destroyed/caused to perish/banished

Referenced Verses

• Hab 2:17 : 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
• Gen 3:24 : 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
• Ezek 8:17 : 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
• Hab 2:8 : 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
• Ezek 27:12-36 : 12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. 14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. 15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony. 16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. 20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants. 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. 24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. 27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. 34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. 35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
• Ezek 28:14 : 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
• Hos 12:7 : 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
• Amos 3:9 : 9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
• Mic 2:2 : 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• Mic 2:10 : 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
• Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
• Gen 6:11 : 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Lev 18:24-28 : 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: 27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
• Isa 22:19 : 19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
• Isa 23:9 : 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
• Isa 23:17-18 : 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
• Zeph 1:9 : 9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
• Luke 19:45-46 : 45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; 46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
• John 2:16 : 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
• 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• 2 Pet 2:4-6 : 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.