Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 28:16

"By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire." — Ezekiel 28:16 (ASV)

Filled the midst of thee.— The language passes very naturally here from the king himself to the state over which he presided, and with which he was identified, immediately recurring, however, to the king personally. He, as polluted, should be cast out of his imagined mountain of God: he, the cherub covering the mercy-seat, indeed, shall be destroyed: his fancied God-like walking amid the stones of fire shall forever cease.