Bible Strands
Ezekiel 28:15
From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through Ezekiel to the guardian cherub figure, declaring that perfection characterized the addressee from creation until corruption appeared.
The words — תָּמִים (tamim) denotes "blameless" or "complete," establishing the original condition. עַוְלָתָה ('avla'ta) translates to "unrighteousness," marking the precise moment that state ended.
The thread — This trajectory from pristine creation to discovered corruption parallels the judgment of fallen angels in 2 Peter 2:4 and the subsequent pride and expulsion detailed in Ezekiel 28:17.
Why it lands — The text establishes that moral failure originates in a subsequent discovery rather than in the act of creation, requiring readers to identify where their own integrity ends and corruption begins.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Cross-references
- 2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- Ezekiel 28:17 Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Romans 7:9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
- Ezekiel 27:3 Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
- Ezekiel 28:3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
- Ezekiel 28:12 “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
- Lamentations 5:16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
- Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
- Isaiah 14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.