Ezekiel 18:14

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 NOT SUCH LIKE. The third case: a son who walks not in the steps of an unrighteous father, but in the ways of God; e.g., Josiah, the pious son of guilty Amon; Hezekiah, of Ahaz (2 Kings 16:1; 2 Kings 18:1; 2 Kings 21:1; 2 Kings 22:1). SEETH ... AND CONSIDERETH. The same Hebrew [ raa'ah (H7200...

In this third example Ezekiel announces, that if a man be born of a wicked father, he may nevertheless be pleasing to God, if he be unlike his father and thus he refutes the proverb that was so common in Israel — that the father ate the sour grapes, and the children’s teeth were set on edge. For if the sons were sufferers through the father’s eating the sour grapes, then the pious who drew their origin from wicked despisers of God would be freed from all their sins. Thus Ezekiel would have been punished instead of his father, Ahaz, and Josiah instead of Manasseh. But here the Prophet bears witness that the good, however they may have been born from wicked parents, should receive the reward of righteousness no less certainly and faithfully than if they had come down from heaven, and if their family had always been without the commission of any crime. Since, therefore, God does not punish...

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. Whatever outward sufferings come upon men through the sins of others, they deserve for their own sins all they suffer; and the Lord overrules every event for the eternal good of believers. All souls are in the hand of the great Creator: he will deal with them in justice or mercy; nor will any perish for the sins of another, who is not in some sense worthy of death for his own. We all have sinned, and our souls must be lost, if God deal with us according to his holy law; but we are invited to come to Christ. If a man who had shown his faith by his works, had a wicked son, whose character and conduct were the reverse of his parent's, could it be expected he should escape the Divine vengeance...

Verse Ezekiel 18:14. _NOW, LO_, IF _HE BEGET A SON THAT SEETH ALL HIS FATHER'S_ _SINS-AND CONSIDERETH_] Lays to heart the evil of his father's life, and the dreadful consequences of a life of rebellion against God. _AND DOETH NOT SUCH LIKE_] Is quite a different man in moral _feeling_ and _character_; and acts up to the _thirteen points_ already laid down....

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 lips of his countrymen, and had seen its working in their hearts, the proverb with which they blunted their sense of personal responsibility. They had to bear the punishment of sins which they had not committed. The sins of the fathers were visited, as in Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:7;...

NOW, LO, [IF] HE BEGET A SON,.... That is, the wicked man before mentioned; if he begets a son who proves a good man, which sometimes is the case, as Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, and Josiah the son of Amon: THAT SEETH ALL HIS FATHER'S SINS WHICH HE HATH DONE; not every particular action, but the principal of them; however, the several sorts and kinds of sin he was addicted to, and which were done publicly enough, and obvious to view; and yet does not imitate them, as children are apt to do: AND CONSIDERETH: the evil nature and tendency of them; how abominable to God; how contrary to his law; how scandalous and reproachful in themselves, and how pernicious and destructive in their effects and consequences. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, read, "and feareth": AND DOETH NOT SUCH LIKE; he fears God; and because the fear of God is before his eyes, and on his heart, which w...

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 18:4). But the conditions to have life and to be just cannot be fulfilled by sinful man; nor is In these verses “eternal life” in view; these are not conditions to secure “eternal life,” but to escape physical death in the announced judgment. The conditions which bring death are given in Ezekiel 18:10. The son does not die for his father's sins, as th

_and considereth_ Lit. _even seeth_, so Ezekiel 18:28. With a different punctuation the word would mean: _and feareth_, as R.V....

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 has been to reinforce the announcement of Jerusalem's judgment by refuting the erroneous bases of the exile's confidence which led them to believe that Jerusalem could never be destroyed. In these Chapter s Ezekiel deals with seven false attitudes which are in some cases explicitly stated and in other cases implied in the text. The chart below will serve as a review of the argumentation found in Chapter s 12-19. REVIEW OF CHAPTER S 12-19 Popular Rationalization Prophetic Response Prophecies of doom have failed to materialize God loves us too much to destroy us (Ezekiel 12:22) Judgments against Judah belong to some distant future age No cause for

18:14 considereth, (a-20) Or 'feareth.'...