Ezekiel 28:10
in Ezekiel 28You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
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ASV
Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
KJV
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
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This verse in Ezekiel 28
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
you regard your heart as the heart of a god
on Ezekiel 28:6-10
The sentence matches the crime clause for clause: strangers will draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom. The pit and the deaths of the uncircumcised name the shame, burial without the covenant sign. The strangers are Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon (26:7) and, in the older commentators' reading, Alexander after him.
This site's exposition
die the death of the uncircumcised
Chapter 32 fills out this picture, where Egypt, Assyria, Elam and the Sidonians lie among the uncircumcised slain in the Pit. The king of Tyre joins that company. The closing formula marks the sentence as fixed.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Chapter 28, Verse 1 onwards) 'The word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are a man, and not a god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god. Behold, you are wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that is hidden from you.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), of those that are strangers to God and not in covenant with him, and therefore die under his wrath and curse. It is deaths, a double death, temporal and eternal, the death both of body and soul. He shall die the second death; that is dying miserably indeed.
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Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
deaths of . . . uncircumcised--that is, such a death as the uncircumcised or godless heathen deserve; and perhaps, also, such as the uncircumcised inflict, a great ignominy in the eyes of a Jew (1Sa 31:4); a fit retribution on him who had scoffed at the circumcised Jews.
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The deaths of the uncircumcised - Two deaths, temporal and eternal. Ithobaal was taken and killed by Nebuchadnezzar.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מוֹתֵ֧י | motei | [the] deaths of | H4194 → | 156 times |
| עֲרֵלִ֛ים | ʾarelim | uncircumcised [men] | H6189 → | 35 times |
| תָּמ֖וּת | tamut | you will die | H4191 → | 839 times |
| בְּיַד־ | beyad- | by [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| זָרִ֑ים | zarim | strangers | H2114 → | 77 times |
| כִּ֚י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֣י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| דִבַּ֔רְתִּי | dibarti | I have spoken | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| נְאֻ֖ם | neum | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֥י | ʾadonai | [the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִֽה׃ ס | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
מוֹתֵ֧י[the] deaths of
moteiH4194 →156 times
עֲרֵלִ֛יםuncircumcised [men]
ʾarelimH6189 →35 times
תָּמ֖וּתyou will die
tamutH4191 →839 times
בְּיַד־by [the] hand of
beyad-H3027 →1618 times
זָרִ֑יםstrangers
zarimH2114 →77 times
כִּ֚יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֣יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
דִבַּ֔רְתִּיI have spoken
dibartiH1696 →1141 times
נְאֻ֖ם[the] utterance of
neumH5002 →376 times
אֲדֹנָ֥י[the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִֽה׃ סYahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Samuel 17:26David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he…
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 17:10
Then the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day! Give me a man to fight!”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 11:2
But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
- Deuteronomy 5:26
For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
- 1 Samuel 17:10
Through
Ezekiel 31:18Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 32:21
Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 32:19
Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!
- Ezekiel 32:21
Through
Ezekiel 32:19Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!
it leads to
- Jeremiah 9:25–26
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 32:29–30
Edom is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.
- Ezekiel 31:18
Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You…
- Jeremiah 9:25–26
Where this verse is studied
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, Ezekiel and the Book of His Prophecy.