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Ezekiel 18:29
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal, right and just. O house of Israel, are not My ways equal? Are not your ways unequal?
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal, right and just. O house of Israel, are not My ways equal? Are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel 18:1. In Ezekiel 18:1, we find the false accusation against God and the divine answer, and this is followed in Ezekiel 18:5 by the conditions of life, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die” ...
DISCOURSE: 1107 EQUITY OF GOD IN HIS JUDGMENTS Ezekiel 18:25. Ye say, the way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? When a righteous ma...
B. The Potential of Personal Repentance 18:21-32 TRANSLATION (21) But if the wicked one turns from all his sins which he has done, and keeps all My statutes, and deals justly and righteously, he shal...
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? YET SAITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT EQUAL...
GOD'S EQUITY VINDICATED The popular view of Israel's calamities, as expressed in a current proverb, was that they were the punishment of the sins of former generations. Though there was a measure of t...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 18 * In this chapter, the *Lord explains that each person...
וְ אָֽמְרוּ֙ בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יִתָּכֵ֖ן...
THE RELIGION OF THE INDIVIDUAL Ezekiel 18:1 IN the sixteenth chapter, as we have seen, Ezekiel has asserted in the most unqualified terms the validity of the principle of national retribution. The na...
THE REVERSAL OF THE DIVINE JUDGMENT Ezekiel 18:14-32 The Jews of Ezekiel's day asserted that God's dealings with their nation were not just, because they were suffering, not for their own sins, but f...
The next prophecy was directed against the false attitude of mind obtaining among the exiled people, which had expressed itself in a proverb, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's te...
When the Lord puts the question, Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, and not that he should return from his ways and live? We cannot suppose that the sense is, the Lord hath no pleasure in...
Here God briefly shows how furious those are who dare to rebel against him even when his justice is manifest: for what can be desired more justly than that God should punish all the transgressors of h...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. Chapter 18 contains an important principle of the dealings of God, unfolded at that period. God would judge the individual according to his own con...
YET SAITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT EQUAL,.... Though the case was put so many ways, and the thing was made so clear and plain, by the instances given; as, if a man was a just ma...
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? Ver. 29. _Yet saith the house of Israel._] Yet; for all that I ca...
_Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal_, &c. Yet ye allege that I do not act according to the strict rules of justice and equity: but “the declarations I have so often repeated concerning the e...
21-29 The wicked man would be saved, if he turned from his evil ways. The true penitent is a true believer. None of his former transgressions shall be mentioned unto him, but in the righteousness whi...
This is the third or fourth appeal to the very consciences of Israel, on whose side the injustice lieth: the words are already unfolded EZEKIEL 18:25, and the justice of God and the wickedness of such...
Ezekiel 18:29 house H1004 Israel H3478 says H559 (H8804) way H1870 Lord H136 fair H8505 (H8735) house...
“Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.' Oh house of Israel, are my ways not equal? Are your ways not unequal?” God challenges Israel to recognise that in fact it is they who...
CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for Israel in captivity. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: He who makes conscience of conforming in everything to the will of God, who makes it his business to serv...
Ezekiel 18:2. _The fathers have eaten sour_ (unripe) _grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge._ Chaldaic, the children follow them. This proverb threw the blame on their fathers, on Adam, on...
_O house of Israel, are not My ways equal?_ SCRIPTURE APPEALING TO THE REASON AND CONSCIENCE OF MAN This is one among the many instances to be found in Scripture where the rational and moral nature o...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:1 God holds each generation accountable for its own sins. ⇐ ⇔...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:25 THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT JUST. “Just” has the sense of “weighed” or “measured,” that is, in conformity to a standard (compare 1 Samuel 2
(Ezekiel 18:27.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 18:29. “Are not your ways unequal?” “They asserted (Ezekiel 18:25) that the ways of God were not right—properly, not weighed in the balance of righteousness...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 18:1, EZEKIEL 18:2 WHAT MEAN YE, THAT YE USE THIS PROVERB, etc.? Another and entirely different section opens, and we see at once from what it started. Ezekiel had heard from the l...
CHAPTER 18. THE RETRIBUTIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. Ezekiel 18:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 18:2. _Why do ye use this proverb upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers...
Now there are instructions for those who have been taken to Babylon, and Ezekiel now turns and speaks to them. The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, What mean ye, that you use this proverb conce...
Ezekiel 18:2; Ezekiel 18:25; Proverbs 19:3...