Ezekiel 18:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 his father, he shall surely live.

Hath taken

That hath not

Ezekiel 18:8

Leviticus 18:4

He shall not

Matthew 23:29

He shall surely

Ezekiel 18:9

Ezekiel 3:21

Ezekiel 33:13

General references

Exodus 22:25

Deuteronomy 23:19

Bible References

Hath taken

In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.

A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then it is well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

'Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.

and the lord of that servant having been moved with compassion did release him, and the debt he forgave him.

And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, 'Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.'

That hath not

In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.

My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God;

He shall not

And ye have said, Wherefore hath not the son, Borne of the iniquity of the father? And -- the son judgment and righteousness hath done, All My statutes he hath kept, And he doeth them, he surely liveth.

And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept,

Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, 'In what do we turn back?'

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,

He shall surely

In My statutes he doth walk, And My judgments he hath kept -- to deal truly, Righteous is he, he surely liveth, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

And thou, because thou hast warned him -- the righteous -- that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soul hast delivered.'

In My saying of the righteous: He surely liveth, And -- he hath trusted on his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, All his righteous acts are not remembered, And for his perversity that he hath done, For it he doth die.

General references

'If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

'Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.