Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
The fathers
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Bible References
Mean
Ezekiel 17:12
Say, I pray thee unto the perverse house, Know ye not what these things are? Say thou Lo! the King of Babylon entered Jerusalem And took her king and her princes, And brought them unto him in Babylon;
Isaiah 3:15
What right have ye to crush my people, And the faces of the oppressed, to grind? Demandeth My Lord Yahweh of hosts - And Yahweh saith -
Romans 9:20
O man! Who, nevertheless, art, thou, that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it - Why didst thou make me thus?
The land
Ezekiel 6:2
Son of man, Set thy face against the mountains of Israel, - and prophesy unto them;
Ezekiel 7:2
Thou therefore O son of man. Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, To the so of Israel, there is an end,- The end hath come upon the four skirts of the land.
Ezekiel 25:3
So then thou shalt say to the sons of Ammon, Hear ye the word of my Lord Yahweh: Thus, saith My Lord. Yahweh: Because thou saidst Aha! Against my sanctuary when it was profaned. And against the so of Israel when it was laid waste, And against the house of Judah when they went into exile.
Ezekiel 36:1
Thou therefore. Son of man, Prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, - and thou shalt say, Ye mountains of Israel Hear ye the word of Yahweh.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then said he unto me, Son of man. These bones, are all the house of Israel, - Lo! they are saying. Dried are our bones, and lost is our hope We are quite cut off!
The fathers
Jeremiah 15:4
And I will make them a terror, to all the kingdoms of the earth, - On account of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah, For what he did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 31:29
In those days, shall they say no more, Fathers, did eat sour grapes, - And, children's teeth, are blunted!
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.
Matthew 23:36
Verily, I say unto you - All these things, will have come, upon this generation.
General references
Jeremiah 31:29
In those days, shall they say no more, Fathers, did eat sour grapes, - And, children's teeth, are blunted!
Ezekiel 18:29
Can the house of Israel then say- The way of My Lord will not be equal? Will my ways, not be equal O house of Israel? Will not your ways be unequal?