Ezekiel 18:2

New Century Version

“What do you mean by using this saying about the land of Israel: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and that caused the children to grind their teeth from the sour taste’?

Cross References

Job 21:19

It is said, ‘God saves up a person’s punishment for his children.’ But God should punish the wicked themselves so they will know it.

Exodus 20:5

You must not worship or serve any idol, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. If you hate me, I will punish your children, and even your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Isaiah 3:15

What gives you the right to crush my people and grind the faces of the poor into the dirt?” The Lord God All-Powerful says this.

Jeremiah 15:4

I will make the people of Judah hated by everyone on earth because of what Manasseh did in Jerusalem. (Manasseh son of Hezekiah was king of the nation of Judah.)

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned against you, but they are gone; now we suffer because of their sins.

Ezekiel 12:22

“Human, what is this saying you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by and every vision comes to nothing’?

Ezekiel 16:44

“ ‘Everyone who uses wise sayings will say this about you: “The daughter is like her mother.”

Ezekiel 17:12

“Say now to the people who refuse to obey: ‘Do you know what these things mean?’ Say: ‘The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took the king and important men of Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon.

Ezekiel 18:1

The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:

Ezekiel 18:19

“But you ask, ‘Why is the son not punished for the father’s sin?’ The son has done what is fair and right. He obeys all my rules, so he will surely live.

Ezekiel 18:3

“As surely as I live, says the Lord God, this is true: You will not use this saying in Israel anymore.

Ezekiel 25:3

Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says: You were glad when my Temple was dishonored, when the land of Israel was ruined, and when the people of Judah were taken away as captives.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, “Human, these bones are like all the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has gone. We are destroyed.’

Ezekiel 37:19

say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: I will take the stick for Joseph and the tribes of Israel with him, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and I will put it with the stick of Judah. I will make them into one stick, and they will be one in my hand.’

Ezekiel 37:25

They will live on the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land in which your ancestors lived. They will all live on the land forever: they, their children, and their grandchildren. David my servant will be their king forever.

Ezekiel 7:2

“Human, the Lord God says this to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.

Matthew 23:36

I tell you the truth, all of these things will happen to you people who are living now.

Romans 9:20

You are only human, and human beings have no right to question God. An object should not ask the person who made it, “Why did you make me like this?”