the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Ezekiel 18:19
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Why: Exodus 20:5, Deuteronomy 5:9, 2 Kings 23:26, 2 Kings 24:3, 2 Kings 24:4, Jeremiah 15:4, Lamentations 5:7
When: Ezekiel 20:18-20, Ezekiel 20:24, Ezekiel 20:30, Zechariah 1:3-6
Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:17 - to bear Leviticus 26:39 - and also Deuteronomy 6:18 - shalt do 2 Kings 9:26 - I will requite Job 21:19 - for his Ezekiel 18:3 - General Ezekiel 18:17 - he shall not Ezekiel 18:21 - and do Luke 11:48 - ye bear
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
Yet say ye, why?.... Why do you say so? why do you go on to assert that which is not fact, or which is contrary to fact, contrary to what we feel and experience every day, to say that children are not punished for their parents' sins? these are the words of the murmuring, complaining, and blaspheming Jews, quarrelling with the prophet, and with the Lord himself:
doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? have not we proof of it every day we live? are not our present case and circumstances a full evidence of it? or the words may be rendered, "why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father?" so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; or, as the Targum,
"why is not the son punished for the sins of the father?''
and so they are an objection, which is foreseen might be made, and is here anticipated, to which an answer is returned; and so the Syriac version introduces it, "but if they said", c. then adds, "tell them", as follows:
when, or "because"
the son hath done that which is lawful [and] right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them: this is the reason why he shall not bear his father's sins, or be punished for them intimating that they had not done these things that made the complaint, or put the, question; but had committed the same sins their fathers had, and so were punished, not for their fathers' sins, but their own: for otherwise the man that does what is just and right with God, and between man and man,
he shall surely live; :-.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Why?... - Rather, “Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?”