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LXX Ezekiel

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Chapter 28

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord; Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God: 3 are you wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed you with their knowledge? 4 Have you gained power for yourself by your own knowledge or your own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in your treasures? 5 By your abundant knowledge and your traffic you have multiplied your power; your heart has been lifted up by your power. 6 Therefore thus says the Lord; Since you have set your heart as the heart of God; 7 because of this, look, I will bring on you strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against you, and against the beauty of your knowledge, and they shall bring down your beauty to destruction. 8 And they shall bring you down; and you shall die the death of those killed in the heart of the sea. 9 Will you indeed say, I am God, before those who kill you? whereas you are man, and not God. 10 You shall perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised: for I have spoken it, says the Lord. 11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God; You are a seal of resemblance, and crown of beauty. 13 You were in the delight of the paradise of God;⁠ you have bound upon you every precious stone, the sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: and you have filled your treasures and your stores in you with gold, from the day that you were created. 14 With the cherub I set you on the holy mount of God; you were in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 You were faultless in your days, from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you. 16 Of the abundance of your merchandise you have filled your storehouses with iniquity, and have sinned: therefore you have been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought you out of the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart has been lifted up because of your beauty; your knowledge has been corrupted with your beauty: because of the multitude of your sins I have cast you to the ground, I have caused you to be put to open shame before kings. 18 Because of the multitude of your sins and the iniquities of your merchandise, you have profaned your sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of you, this shall devour you; and I will make you to be ashes upon your land before all that see you. 19 And all that know you among the nations shall groan over you: you are gone to destruction, and you shall not exist any more for ever. 20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 21 Son of man, set your face against Sidon, and prophesy against it, 22 and say, Thus says the Lord; Look, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in you; and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have executed judgments in you, and I will be sanctified in you. 23 Blood and death shall be in your streets; and men wounded with swords shall fall in you and on every side of you; and they shall know that I am the Lord. 24 And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from those who are all around them, who dishonored them; and they shall know that I am the Lord. 25 Thus says the Lord God; I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them, and before the peoples and nations: and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. 26 Yes, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgment on all that have dishonored them, even on those that are all around them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.

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Hebrew Bible · Septuagint

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Summary

Ezekiel 28 places the king of Tyre in the garden of Eden and covered with gems, following ancient Near Eastern traditions. The Greek Septuagint translates it as “garden of delight,” using language that was later associated with Sabbath observance.

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Ezekiel 28:13

Hebrew Bible
12 “Son of man, sing a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘You were the sealer of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and emerald, the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; your settings and mounts were made of gold. On the day you were created they were prepared. 14 I placed you there with an anointed guardian cherub; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked about amidst fiery stones.
600–501 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Ezekiel

LXX Ezekiel 28:13

Septuagint
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God; You are a seal of resemblance, and crown of beauty. 13 You were in the delight of the paradise of God; you have bound upon you every precious stone, the sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: and you have filled your treasures and your stores in you with gold, from the day that you were created. 14 With the cherub I set you on the holy mount of God; you were in the midst of the stones of fire.
100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Ezekiel

References

"... The idea that the Sabbath was a festive day comes from Isaiah 58:13, which calls it a day of “delight” (LXX: tryphera), a word that evokes the garden of Eden since Genesis 3:23–24 LXX calls Eden a garden of delight (tryphē). Similarly, while the Hebrew of Ezekiel refers to the garden of Eden (Ezekiel 28:13; 31:9), the LXX translator renders the Hebrew as “the garden of delight” (ho paradeisos tēs tryphēs). Philo calls the feast a symbol of the joy of the soul, using a term that includes and perhaps refers specifically to the Sabbath, a day on which it is fitting to be thankful to God. Elsewhere he says that Jews spend the Sabbath cheerfully and in tranquility. This understanding of the Sabbath is also implicit in the widespread prohibition of fasting on the Sabbath that can be found at Qumran, in Jubilees, and in later rabbinic literature. While not an explicit prohibition of fasting, the book of Judith portrays its protagonist fasting all the days of her widowhood except on the day before the Sabbath, on the Sabbath itself, and on festival days, because these were joyful days (Judith 8:6) ..."
Matthew Thiessen, Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020), 215–216.

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