Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 28:4
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
With thy wisdom; by thy policy in government, and by thy skill in trading, for he speaks of that kind of prudence to which these names are given.
Gotten, or
made, so the word. Riches; power and might, so the Hebrew, as well as wealth and riches, and so the Gallic version reads
puissance; the princes of Tyre had been prudent, and so increased their power and interest.
Into thy treasures; into both his own private purse, and into the public treasuries too.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,…. Through skill in navigation and trade, for which the Tyrians and their princes were famous, they acquired great wealth: so antichrist, by carnal policy, and hellish subtlety, has amassed vast treasures together; the sale of pardons and indulgences has brought immense riches into the pope’s coffers:
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; in great quantities; see Re 18:3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“By your wisdom and by your understanding you have obtained for yourself riches, and you have obtained gold and silver into your treasuries. By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.”
The wisdom the king and his subjects had was the wisdom as to how to make themselves rich through trading. He knew how to accumulate the riches that would destroy him by making him too presumptious, and he had put all his efforts into it. The world stood back and admired, for the world admires nothing more than the ability to become rich, but he and they would be much wiser if they considered their end (Psa 73:17).
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
Ver. 4. With thy wisdom thou hast gotten thee riches. ] Which yet is not every wise man’s happiness. Aelian a observeth that the wisest and best of the Grecians were very poor, as Socrates, Aristides, Phocion, Ephialtes, Epaminondas, Pelopidas, Lamachus, and others. Fortuna fere favet fatuis: nescio quomodo, bonae mentis soror, est paupertas, saith he in Petronius. b Piety goeth oft yoked with poverty.
a Var. Hist., lib. ii.
b Eumolpus.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 29:3, Deu 8:17, Deu 8:18, Pro 18:11, Pro 23:4, Pro 23:5, Ecc 9:11, Hab 1:16, Zec 9:2-4
Reciprocal: 1Ch 17:9 – and shall be Psa 49:6 – boast Isa 23:3 – she is Jer 49:4 – trusted Zec 9:3 – heaped Mar 10:24 – trust
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 28:4. The king of Tyrus was not as wise as he thought, yet he was not unintelligent, for he had succeeded in attracting the commerce of other cities. He had dealt with them in such a manner as to make a considerable profit.