Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
Ezekiel 18:1
‘The word of Yahweh came to me again saying.'
The prophet is still bound by his oath of dumbness but has again received a word from Yahweh to pass on.
‘The word of Yahweh came to me again saying.'
The prophet is still bound by his oath of dumbness but has again received a word from Yahweh to pass on.
CHAPTER XVIII _The Jews, in Ezekiel's time, complained of God's dealing hardly_ _with them in punishing them for the sins of their forefathers_, 1, 2; _their temporal calamities having been long t...
The last verse of Ezekiel 17 gives occasion for a declaration of the principle upon which God’s providential dispensations proceed, namely, that every individual shall be equitably dealt with - a prin...
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” ...
EZEKIEL 18. THE PRINCIPLE OF RETRIBUTION. From many points of view the imminent doom has been abundantly justified. But on whom will it fall? on the innocent and guilty alike? This chapter proclaims t...
THE WORD. And the word. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4....
CHAPTER NINE DOCTRINES AND DIRGES 18:1-19:14 In Chapter s 18 and 19 Ezekiel brings to a close the long section of his book which began in chapter 12. The prophet's purpose in these eight Chapter s ha...
The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, Vindication of God's moral government as to His retributive righteousness, from the Jewish imputation of injustice, as if they were suffering, not f...
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...
וַ יְהִ֥י דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵ אמֹֽר
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 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...
CONTENTS This chapter is a beautiful commendation of divine justice, and no less a condemnation of human folly....
It should seem by the scope of reasoning the Lord is pleased to adopt in this chapter, that the proverb here used was an indirect reflection upon God. It was probably the scoffer's comment upon the se...
We may collect from this rebuke that the Jews were perverse interpreters of the best teaching; yea, they purposely reviled the Prophet’s expression, and drew it to a contrary meaning. For it, is far c...
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...
AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME AGAIN, SAYING. The word of prophecy from the Lord, as the Targum; and its being mentioned is coming from the Lord is to give it weight and authority. This is a di...
The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, Ver. 1. _And the word of the Lord came unto me._] This is oft prefaced by the prophets to make their sermons more authoritative and authentic. Pausani...
The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,...
THE PARABLE OF THE SOUR GRAPES...
1-20 The soul that sinneth it shall die. As to eternity, every man was, is, and will be dealt with, as his conduct shows him to have been under the old covenant of works, or the new covenant of grace...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 18 God disalloweth the parable of sour grapes, EZEKIEL 18:1. He showeth his dealing with a just man, EZEKIEL 18:5, with the wicked son of a just father, EZEKIEL 18:10, and with the jus...
Ezekiel 18:1 word H1697 LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800)...
Ezekiel 18:1 This chapter helps us to clear up a puzzle which has tormented the minds of men in all ages whenever they have thought of God, and of whether God meant them well or meant them ill. For al...
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...
_What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?_ SINS OF FATHERS VISITED ON THEIR CHILDREN...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:1 God holds each generation accountable for its own sins. ⇐ ⇔...
THE EQUITY OF THE DIVINE JUSTICE (chap. 18) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The judgments announced in chaps. 8, 11, were intended to bring Israel to repentance. But this salutary purpose was frustrated by the mann...
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 18:1...