Ezekiel 28:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Ezekiel 28:4

4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: