Ezekiel 18:2

Tree of Life Version

“What do you mean by using this proverb in the land of Israel saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, so the children’s teeth are set on edge?’

Cross References

Job 21:19

You say, ‘God stores up the punishment for his children.’ Let Him repay the wicked so he may know it!

Exodus 20:5

Do not bow down to them, do not let anyone make you serve them. For I, Adonai your God, am a jealous God, bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the face of the poor?” says Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot.

Jeremiah 15:4

“So I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

Ezekiel 12:22

“Son of man, what is that proverb you people have in the land of Israel saying, ‘The days are prolonged and every vision fails?’

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will say this proverb against you, saying, ‘As the mother, so her daughter.’

Ezekiel 17:12

Say now to the rebellious house, “Do you not know what these things mean?” Tell them: “Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took the king and the princes and brought them with him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 18:1

The word of Adonai came to me saying:

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet you say, ‘Why does the son not bear the iniquity of the father with him?’ When the son has done what is lawful and right, has kept all My statutes and has done them, he will surely live.

Ezekiel 18:3

As I live”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“you will never again use this proverb in Israel.

Ezekiel 25:3

Say to the children of Ammon—hear the word of Adonai, thus says Adonai Elohim—‘Because you said, “Aha!” against My Sanctuary when it was defiled, against the land of Israel when it was made desolate and against the house of Judah when they went into exile,

Ezekiel 37:11

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say: ‘Our bones are dried up; our hope is lost; we are cut off—by ourselves.’

Ezekiel 37:19

say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph—which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel joined with him—and I will put them together with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick. They will be one in My hand.’

Ezekiel 37:25

They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your ancestors lived. They will live there—they, their children and their children’s children, forever, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

Ezekiel 7:2

“You, son of man, thus says Adonai Elohim concerning the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.

Matthew 23:36

Amen, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.”

Romans 9:20

But who in the world are you, O man, who talks back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”