Ezekiel 28:4

4 By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

Ezekiel 28:4 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 28:4

With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gotten
thee riches
Through skill in navigation and trade, for which the Tyrians and their princes were famous, they acquired great wealth: so antichrist, by carnal policy, and hellish subtlety, has amassed vast treasures together; the sale of pardons and indulgences has brought immense riches into the pope's coffers: and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
in great quantities; see ( Revelation 18:3 Revelation 18:17 ) .

Ezekiel 28:4 In-Context

2 "Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because your heart was haughty, and you said, 'I [am] a god; I sit [in the] seat of [the] gods, I sit in [the] heart of [the] seas!' But you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like [the] heart of a god.

3 Look, are you wiser than Daniel, [so that] {no secret} is hidden [from] you?

4 By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

5 By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading you [have] increased your wealth and your heart was proud in your wealth." '"

6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of your regarding your {mind} like [the] {mind} of a god,