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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 28:2 - 28:2
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Because, etc. - repeated resumptively in Eze 28:6. The apodosis begins at Eze 28:7. “The prince of Tyrus” at the time was Ithobal, or Ithbaal II; the name implying his close connection with Baal, the Phoenician supreme god, whose representative he was.
I am a god, I sit in ... seat of God ... the seas - As God sits enthroned in His heavenly citadel exempt from all injury, so I sit secure in my impregnable stronghold amidst the stormiest elements, able to control them at will, and make them subserve my interests. The language, though primarily here applied to the king of Tyre, as similar language is to the king of Babylon (Isa 14:13, Isa 14:14), yet has an ulterior and fuller accomplishment in Satan and his embodiment in Antichrist (Dan 7:25; Dan 11:36, Dan 11:37; 2Th 2:4; Rev 13:6). This feeling of superhuman elevation in the king of Tyre was fostered by the fact that the island on which Tyre stood was called “the holy island” [Sanconiathon], being sacred to Hercules, so much so that the colonies looked up to Tyre as the mother city of their religion, as well as of their political existence. The Hebrew for “God” is El, that is, “the Mighty One.”
yet, etc. - keen irony.
set thine heart as ... heart of God - Thou thinkest of thyself as if thou wert God.