Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 18:17
Verse Ezekiel 18:17. He shall not die for the iniquity of his father] He shall no more be affected by his father's crimes, than his father was benefited by his grandfather's righteousness.
Verse Ezekiel 18:17. He shall not die for the iniquity of his father] He shall no more be affected by his father's crimes, than his father was benefited by his grandfather's righteousness.
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 POOR. the oppressed. The Septuagint reads "injustice", as in Ezekiel 18:8. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. Not the same word as in or. Eze 8:24, Eze 8:26....
_taken off his hand_ withdrawn his hand so as not to injure or oppress the poor. LXX. reads: from iniquity, but cf. ch. Ezekiel 20:22....
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...
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, NOW, LO, IF HE BEGOT A SON, THAT SEETH ALL HIS FATHER'S SINS ... AND DOETH...
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...
מֵ עָנִ֞י הֵשִׁ֣יב יָדֹ֗ו נֶ֤שֶׁךְ וְ תַרְבִּ
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...
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...
Now at last he concludes: _he shall not die through his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live. _He does not repeat that this is just, yet we must understand it so; but he stops at the immediate effe...
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...
[THAT] HATH TAKEN OFF HIS HAND FROM THE POOR,.... When he perceived it lay heavy upon him, withdrew it from hurting him, and forbore to do it when it was in his power, and perhaps eased him of the har...
Ezekiel 18:17 [That] hath taken off his hand from the poor, [that] hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of hi...
that hath taken off his hand from the poor, abstaining from doing him harm, even if he might have done so with impunity, THAT HATH NOT RECEIVED USURY NOR INCREASE, HATH EXECUTED MY JUDGMENTS, HATH WAL...
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...
TAKEN OFF HIS HAND FROM THE POOR; withdrawn his hand from hurting or wronging the poor, though he had power and might to do it securely. THAT HATH NOT RECEIVED USURY, & c. see EZEKIEL 18:8,9, where th...
Ezekiel 18:17 withdrawn H7725 (H8689) hand H3027 poor H6041 received H3947 (H8804) usury H5392 increase H8636 exe
THE RIGHTEOUS GRANDSON. “Now, lo, if he beget a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and fears (an alternative reading is ‘considers'), and does not such things, who has not eaten on...
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 18:10) EXEGETICAL NOTES—Two cases are here supposed: (1). That of a righteous father who begets an unrighteous son. (2). That of a righteous son who refuses to copy the evil example of his f...
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...
Daniel 4:27; Ezekiel 18:13; Ezekiel 18:19; Ezekiel 18:20; Ezekiel
Hath taken off — Withdrawn his hand from hurting or wronging the poor, tho' he had power to do it securely....