Ezekiel 18:2

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?

Mean

Ezekiel 17:12

Isaiah 3:15

Romans 9:20

The land

Ezekiel 37:11

The fathers

General references

Jeremiah 31:29

Ezekiel 18:29

Bible References

Mean

Say, I pray thee, to the rebellious house, Have ye not known what these are? Say, Lo, come hath the king of Babylon to Jerusalem, And he taketh its king, and its princes, And bringeth them to himself to Babylon.

What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?

The land

'Son of man, set thy face unto mountains of Israel, and prophesy concerning them:

An end, come hath the end on the four corners of the land.

and thou hast said to the sons of Ammon: Hear ye a word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy saying, Aha, to My sanctuary, Because it hath been polluted, And unto the ground of Israel, Because it hath been desolate, And unto the house of Judah, Because they have gone into a removal:

And thou, son of man, prophesy unto mountains of Israel, and thou hast said, O mountains of Israel, hear a word of Jehovah.

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves.

The fathers

And I have given them for a trembling To all kingdoms of the earth, Because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah, For that which he did in Jerusalem.

In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

General references

In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

And the house of Israel have said, Not pondered is the way of the Lord, My ways -- are they not pondered? O house of Israel -- are not your ways unpondered?