Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah." — Ezekiel 28:10 (ASV)
The uncircumcised. —To the Jew this term conveyed all, and more than all, the public disgrace and censure which the Greeks and Romans attached to barbarians. (Ezekiel 32:19; Ezekiel 32:21; Ezekiel 32:24–28, and others.) It is equivalent to saying “the profane and impious.”
Ezekiel 28:11–19 contain the judgment against the prince of Tyre. He is represented as like the first man, perfect, and placed in Eden, until, upon his fall (Ezekiel 28:15–16), he is shamefully driven out. The passage is strongly ironical.