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
General references
Bible References
Mean
Ezekiel 17:12
Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Say, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes and brought them to him in Babylon.
Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the face of the poor? Declares Jehovah of Hosts.
Romans 9:20
Yes, but you, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why have you made me this way? (Isaiah 45:9)
The land
Ezekiel 6:2
Son of man, look toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
Ezekiel 7:2
Son of man, the Lord Jehovah says to the land of Israel: 'The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 25:3
Tell the Ammonites: 'Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah! The Lord Jehovah says: Because you said, Aha! Against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile,
Ezekiel 36:1
Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 37:11
Jehovah also said: Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.
The fathers
Jeremiah 15:4
I will make these people a horrifying (shocking) sight to all the kingdoms on the earth. This will happen because of what Judah's King Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 31:29
When that time comes people will no longer say: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children's teeth are set on edge.'
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers were sinners and are dead. The weight of their evil deeds is on us.
Matthew 23:36
I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation (those living at that time).
General references
Jeremiah 31:29
When that time comes people will no longer say: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children's teeth are set on edge.'
Ezekiel 18:29
But the nation of Israel says: Jehovah's way is unfair. Is my way not fair, nation of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unfair?