Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared." — Ezekiel 28:13 (ASV)
Every precious stone.— There is some uncertainty regarding the names of some of these stones (as sardius may be carnelian, and beryl chrysolite), but the general fact is an allusion to the profuse use of precious stones as ornaments of their royal apparel by Eastern monarchs. The stones mentioned are the same as those in the breastplate of the high priest (Exodus 39:10), with the third row being omitted; this is supplied in the Greek.
Your pipes.— The word occurs only here, and its most probable sense is females, those who played on the tambourines. All these things did not need to be collected by the king of Tyre, but were ready prepared for him at the moment of his accession to the throne, just as everything was made ready for Adam in Eden.