Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 18:6
Hath not eaten — Hath not committed idolatry, offering sacrifice, and eating of the things sacrificed to idols; whose temples and altars were on mountains, chap. Ezekiel 20:1. & 28. Hosea 4:13.
Hath not eaten — Hath not committed idolatry, offering sacrifice, and eating of the things sacrificed to idols; whose temples and altars were on mountains, chap. Ezekiel 20:1. & 28. Hosea 4:13.
Verse Ezekiel 6:1 1. _HATH NOT EATEN UPON THE MOUNTAINS_] Idolatrous worship was generally performed on _mountains_ and _hills_; and those who offered sacrifices _feasted_ on the sacrifice, and thus...
EATEN, UPON THE MOUNTAINS - At the feast of idols, in contradiction to the command of Deuteronomy 12:17. IDOLS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL - Idolatry was so popular that certain idols were counted as belo...
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” ...
EATEN, &c. Implies sacrificing and partaking of the idolatrous feast. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 12:2 compared with verses: Ezekiel 18:11; Ezekiel 18:15). App-92. HATH LIFTED UP HIS EYES, he...
Developement of the principle in three instances, chosen so as to exhibit it in its most paradoxical form 5 9. The man that is righteous shall live. First, his righteousness is defined generally as do...
_eaten upon the mountains_ that is, sacrificed on the high places and partaken of the sacrificial meal following, token of fellowship as a guest with the idols there worshipped. The phrase occurs agai...
AND HATH NOT EATEN, &C.— Idolatrous worship was generally performed upon the mountains or high places; and eating part of the sacrifice was properly entertaining communion with the idol to whom it was...
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...
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,...
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...
EATEN UPON THE MOUNTAINS] shared in an idolatrous meal at a high place....
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...
EATEN UPON THE MOUNTAINS. — The various sins here specified are all enumerated again, with others, and charged upon Jerusalem in Ezekiel 22:2. The particular of eating upon the mountains is mentioned...
אֶל ־הֶֽ הָרִים֙ לֹ֣א אָכָ֔ל וְ עֵינָיו֙
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...
[And] hath not eaten (b) upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a polluted woman,...
Mountains: of the sacrifices there offered to idols; (Challoner) or partaken in their usual feasts. Some irregularly worshipped God in these high places, under many pious kings; and were tolerated, (C...
I include all these verses under one view in reading, the better to gather also into one view the just and unalterable reasoning of the Lord upon them. Here are three cases stated, in a father, and a...
He says then, _if he has not eaten upon the mountains, and not raised his eyes to the abominable deeds of the house of Israel. _These two points respect the worship of God: for by the figure “a part f...
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] HATH NOT EATEN UPON THE MOUNTAINS,.... Where temples and altars were built for idols, and sacrifices offered up to them; and where feasts were kept to the honour of them, and the sacrifices to t...
Ezekiel 18:6 [And] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstr...
_If a man be just_ Or _righteous_, rather, as the word צדיק properly signifies; for it is not mere honesty, but true religion that is intended. _And hath not eaten upon the mountains_ Feasted on the s...
and hath not eaten upon the mountains, in sacrificial meals consecrated to idols, NEITHER HATH LIFTED UP HIS EYES TO THE IDOLS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, in order to make them objects of confidence, of w...
The Principle of God's Avenging Justice...
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...
Hath not committed idolatry, first offering sacrifice, and eating of the things sacrificed to idols, whose temples and altars were on mountains, EZEKIEL 20:28 HOSEA 4:13, and where the idolaters did u...
Ezekiel 18:6 eaten H398 (H8804) mountains H2022 up H5375 (H8804) eyes H5869 idols H1544 house H1004 Israel...
THE RIGHTEOUS FATHER. “But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right, and has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor has defiled his n...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:1 God holds each generation accountable for its own sins. ⇐ ⇔...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:5 Ezekiel describes three generations: a righteous father (vv. Ezekiel 18:5) and his wicked son (vv....
(Ezekiel 18:5.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—True righteousness is described as the fulfilment of the commandments of God. Through such righteousness the righteous shall live. Ezekiel 18:5. “THAT WHICH IS LAWFU...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Corinthians 6:9; Deuteronomy 22:22; Deuteronomy 4:19;...