Ezekiel 18:10-13

If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,

If he beget a son that is a robber. The second case is that of an impious son of a pious father. His pious parentage, so far from excusing, aggravates his guilt.

Robber - or, literally, 'a breaker,' namely, through all constraints of right.

And that doeth the like to any one of these things. The Hebrew [ 'aach (H251)] and the parallel (Ezekiel 18:18, "spoiled his brother by violence") require us to translate rather, 'doeth to his brother any of these things,' namely, the things which follow in Ezekiel 18:11, etc. (Maurer.)

Verse 11. And that doeth not any of those duties - which his father did (Ezekiel 18:5; Ezekiel 18:9).

Verse 12. Hath oppressed the poor - an aggravation to his oppressions, that they were practiced against the poor; whereas in Ezekiel 18:7 the expression in simply, "oppressed any."

Hath committed abomination - singular number, referring to the particular one mentioned in the end of Ezekiel 18:6.

Verse 13. Shall he then live? - because of the merits of his father; answering, by contrast, to "die for the iniquity of his father" (Ezekiel 18:17).

His blood shall be upon him - the cause of his bloody death shall rest with himself; God is not to blame, but is vindicated as just in punishing him.