Ezekiel 18:2

God's Just Treatment Of Individuals, Both Righteous And Wicked

¹ The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, ² “What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
‘The fathers eat the sour grapes,
But the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
³ As I live, said the Lord GOD, ye shall never again have reason to use this saying in Israel.

Land of Israel

Sour Grapes

Israel

Sin

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers have sinned and are dead; and we have borne their chastisements.

Jeremiah 31:29-30

In those days they shall no longer say, The fathers have eaten the sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Jeremiah 15:4

And I will give them over to be sifted by all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 6:2-3

Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them,

Ezekiel 7:2

and thou son of man, thus hath the Lord GOD said unto the land of Israel: The end, the end comes upon the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 17:12

Say now to the rebellious house: Do ye not know what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem and has taken its king and its princes and led them with him to Babylon;

Ezekiel 25:3

and say unto the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord GOD, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thou didst say, Aha, it is well! upon my sanctuary, which was profaned; and upon the land of Israel, which it was made desolate; and upon the house of Judah, because they went into captivity;

Ezekiel 36:1-6

Also, thou son of man, prophesy upon the mountains of Israel and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said unto me, Son of man, all these bones are the house of Israel; behold, they say, Our bones have dried, and our hope is lost, and in ourselves we are totally cut off.

Ezekiel 37:19

Say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

Ezekiel 37:25

And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my slave, in which your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they and their sons and their son's sons for ever; and my slave David shall be their prince for ever.

Matthew 23:36

Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Romans 9:20

Rather, O man, who art thou to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?