“I placed you
With an anointed cherub
As a guardian.
You were
On the holy mountain
Of God.
You walked among
The stones of fire.
You were blameless
In your ways
From the day
That you were created,
Until iniquity
Was found in you.
In the abundance
Of your trade
You were filled
With violence.
You sinned.
So I cast you
As a profane thing
From the mountain
Of God.
The guardian cherub
Drove you out
From among
The stones of fire.”
Ezekiel has a variation of the Garden of Eden story, in Genesis, chapters 2-3. This time, Tyre is on a mountain of God or God’s mountain. Usually this referred to Jerusalem. This may have been a reference to the Canaanite myth about Mount Sapon, near the Turkish-Syrian border. This holy mountain had a guardian anointed cherub angel. There Tyre could walk on stones of fire. He, like Adam, was created blameless. Then iniquity came from the abundance of his trade. Tyre became violent and sinned. Then he was cast out from this mountain of God by this guardian cherub as something profane and not holy. Thus Tyre could no longer walk on the stones of fire.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 