Ezekiel 18:14

Translations

Modern

Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

Traditional

Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

Literal

And behold, If he begets a son, and he sees all the sins of his father that he has done—and he sees and does not do likewise—

Latin

Quod si genuerit filium, qui videns omnia peccata patris sui quæ fecit, timuerit, et non fecerit simile eis:

Original

Hebrew

English

Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

Notes

Ezekiel 18:14–18

The righteous son of an evil man will surely live. God will judge each person individually.

Ezekiel 15:1–24:14

This section includes eight metaphors, each showing from a different angle the certainty of Jerusalem's upcoming judgment. The images are of:

a worthless vine (Ezekiel 15);
a faithless wife (Ezekiel 16);
a vine and two eagles (Ezekiel 17);
Sour grapes (Ezekiel 18);
a lion and her cubs (Ezekiel 19);
a sword (Ezekiel 21);
two corrupt sisters (Ezekiel 23); and
a cooking pot (Ezekiel 24).

Events

Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

Related verses

2 Chronicles 34:21
“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”
Proverbs 23:24
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
Jeremiah 8:6
I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
1 Peter 1:18
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
Ezekiel 18:10
Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,
Luke 15:17–19
Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, starving to death!
Proverbs 17:21
A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
Haggai 1:7
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
Jeremiah 9:14
Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
Hosea 7:2
But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
Jeremiah 44:17
Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
Ezekiel 20:18
In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Glossary

Banker, Banking Debt Ezekiel, Book of Proverbs, Book of Sin

Topics

Children: Not Punished for Parents' Sake Responsibility: According to Privilege

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