Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 18:25
Equal - literally, “weighed out, balanced.” Man’s ways are arbitrary, God’s ways are governed by a self-imposed law, which makes all consistent and harmonious.
Equal - literally, “weighed out, balanced.” Man’s ways are arbitrary, God’s ways are governed by a self-imposed law, which makes all consistent and harmonious.
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” ...
THE LORD. This is one of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ say that they changed " _Jehovah_ " of the primitive text to " _Adonai_ ". See App-32. EQUAL, See note on "pondereth", Proverbs 21:2, uneq...
_Yet ye say, The way … equal_ AND ye say. The "way" of the Lord is the principle on which he acts, or his action on it, Isaiah 55:8, cf. ch. Ezekiel 33:17; Ezekiel 33:20. The objection of the people m...
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 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? YET YE SAY, THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT EQUAL. Their plea for saying "The w...
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...
THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT EQUAL. — The word means literally, _weighed out, balanced._ The accusation of the Israelites was still (here and in Ezekiel 18:29) that the Lord was arbitrary and unjust. Hi...
וַ אֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם לֹ֥א יִתָּכֵ֖ן דֶּ֣רֶךְ אֲדֹנָ֑י...
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...
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not (h) equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? (h) In punishing the father with the children....
_Not right, in thus punishing or rewarding for the last act; (Theodoret) or rather, God shews that those who complain are guilty._...
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...
The Prophet here shows that those who used the vulgar taunt — that the children’s teeth were set on edge, because their fathers had eaten sour grapes — had broken away from all restraint; and nothing...
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 YE SAY,.... Notwithstanding these plain instances, which show the equity of God in his proceedings, and vindicate his justice in the dispensations of his providence; yet such was the blindness and...
Yet 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? Ver. 25. _Yet ye say._] Ye will still hold your own, and no reason shall per...
_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...
Yet ye say, in a statement which lacked all foundation, THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT EQUAL, not in agreement with true equity. HEAR NOW, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, IS NOT MY WAY EQUAL? Did He really treat diffe...
God's Merciful call to Repentance...
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...
YET YE SAY; you persist in your hard, unjust, and ungodly sentiments of an inequality in my ways, and are not afraid to speak as much. THE WAY: it were too much for sinners to charge God with inequali...
Ezekiel 18:25 say H559 (H8804) way H1870 Lord H136 fair H8505 (H8735) Hear H8085 (H8798) house...
“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal'.” The unusual use here of ‘the Lord' by itself (see also Ezekiel 18:29 and contrast the usual ‘Lord Yahweh') suggests that this had become a standard g...
Ezekiel 18:25 It seems that the Jews complained of the law under which they lived as unjust, because it spoke of the sins of fathers being visited upon their children. The proverb of the sour grapes w...
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...
_Yet 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? ON THE UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF HAPPINESS AND MISERY Let us suppose an att...
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 18:21.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The ways of life and death are here for all set forth. A man’s own sins even, provided they are forsaken, will not exclude him from salvation. “The proof that every...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:4; Ezekiel 18:29; Ezekiel 33:17; Ezekiel 33:20;...
The way — His whole management of affairs. Not equal — Not right, or consistent with his own declaration, and law....