Ezekiel 28:4 BSB — MannaFest

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9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּחָכְמָֽתְךָ֙	be.cha.khe.ma.te.Kha	by wisdom your	H2451 →
וּבִתְבוּנָ֣תְךָ֔	u.vit.vu.Na.te.kha	and by understanding your	H8394 →
עָשִׂ֥יתָ	'a.Si.ta	you have acquired	H6213 →
לְּךָ֖	le.Kha	for yourself
חָ֑יִל	Cha.yil	wealth	H2428 →
וַתַּ֛עַשׂ	va.Ta.'as	and you have acquired	H6213 →
זָהָ֥ב	za.Hav	gold	H2091 →
וָכֶ֖סֶף	va.Khe.sef	and silver	H3701 →
בְּאוֹצְרוֹתֶֽיךָ׃	be.'otz.ro.Tei.kha	in treasuries your	H214 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 18:11
A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
leads to
- Proverbs 10:15
  The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
- Psalms 52:5–7
  Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- Ecclesiastes 7:12
  For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
Through
Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 8:17
  You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
- Ezekiel 28:3
  Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
- Habakkuk 1:11
  Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”
- Daniel 4:30
  the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
- Ezekiel 29:3
  Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says,…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Proverbs 18:11A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.Deuteronomy 8:17–18You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”Proverbs 23:4–5Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.1 Chronicles 17:9And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning Zechariah 9:2–4and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.Habakkuk 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.Ecclesiastes 9:11I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.Ezekiel 29:3Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’Isaiah 23:3On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.

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