has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.
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has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.
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Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
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hath given forth upon interest, and hath taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live — he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely be put to death, his blood shall be upon him.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 18:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 22:25 “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.
- Leviticus 20:9 “ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.
- Ezekiel 18:8 he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
- Leviticus 20:11-13 “ ‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves. “ ‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon themselves. “ ‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
- Leviticus 20:27 “ ‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’ ”
- Ezekiel 3:18 When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
- Ezekiel 18:17 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.
- Ezekiel 18:24 “But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
- Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
- Ezekiel 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
- Ezekiel 33:4-5 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul.
- Acts 18:6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He showeth how the son is punished for his…
He showeth how the son is punished for his father’s fault: that is, if he be wicked as his father was, and doth not repent, he shall be punished as his father was, or else not.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 18:13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath…
Eze 18:13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Ver. 13. He hath done all these abominations.] Or, If he have done but one of them, and undo it not again by true repentance.
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He shall surely die.] Neither shall his father’s righteousness privilege him, or prevail at all for him.
His blood shall be upon him.] He is felo de se, his own death’s man, and his mends he hath in his own hands, as they say.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain See Eze 18:8.
See Eze 18:8.
Shall he then live? Do you think his father’s righteousness shall preserve him from the punishment his own unrighteousness deserveth, my law threateneth, and my justice inflicteth? Shall he not with other sinners be spoiled, besieged, die by the sword or famine, or languish in a long captivity, and there die?
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He shall not live; a decisive answer to the former question; such a one shall not prosper, nor long escape the strokes of my justice; and the answer is parallel with that Eze 17:10.
He hath done all these abominations; is personally involved in the sins which are worthy of death, and which are so expressly threatened by law and prophets.
Done; not only winked at, or not hindered, but hath been a forward, voluntary, active doer of them.
All these that are here, and elsewhere in this prophet, and in others, charged on the Jews as the cause of their calamities at this day.
Abominations; great enormities, sins to be abominated and hated, not practised and justified by shameless sinners.
He shall surely die; most certainly die; or if you suppose such a one finally impenitent, he shall surely die under temporal judgments, and so by the first death fall under the second death also: dying he shall die; a Hebrew phrase, and very full.
His blood shall be upon him; Heb. it is plural, bloods: both the blood of the innocent which he murdered, and his own blood, which thereby he forfeited, the blood of his own soul and life, that is, the whole blame of his misery in time and eternity, shall lie upon himself, who brought all those sorrows on himself by his own wickednesses.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain His blood - Hebrew. 'Tis plural, bloods; both the…
His blood - Hebrew. 'Tis plural, bloods; both the blood of the innocent which he murdered, and his own blood which thereby he forfeited; the blood of his own soul and life: that is the whole blame of his misery in time and eternity, shall lie upon himself.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 13. Shall he then live?] Because his father…
Verse 13. Shall he then live?] Because his father was a righteous man, shall the father's holiness be imputed to him? No!
He shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.] He shall suffer for his own crimes.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Him. He alone is answerable, and shall suffer.
Him. He alone is answerable, and shall suffer.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain shall he . . . live?--because of the merits…
shall he . . . live?--because of the merits of his father; answering, by contrast, to "die for the iniquity of his father" (Eze 18:17).
his blood shall be upon him--The cause of his bloody death shall rest with himself; God is not to blame, but is vindicated as just in punishing him.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 13. He shall surely die, etc. — The legal…
13. He shall surely die, etc. — The legal sentence (Exo_21:15; Exo_22:18; Lev_20:11).
His blood shall be upon him — He is responsible for his own death (Eze_33:4; Lev_20:9; 2Sa_1:16; Mat_27:24-25).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. shall surely die] The formula common in the…
13. shall surely die] The formula common in the law, “shall surely be put to death,” Lev_20:11; Exo_21:15; Exo_22:18.
his blood … upon him] He shall suffer the death due to his own deeds, ch. Eze_33:4; Lev_20:9; 2Sa_1:16.
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Eze_18:14-20. Third link in the chain of illustration: this unrighteous man on the other hand begets a son who, seeing his father’s iniquities, is deterred by them and lives righteously. This son shall not die for the sins of his father, but live because of his own righteousness.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) Hath done all these abominations.—This expression is collective,…
(13) Hath done all these abominations.—This expression is collective, while that in Eze_18:10 is partitive. This is not because he who commits one sin is considered as having committed all, but because he who willingly commits any sin thereby puts himself into the class of sinners, of those who do not wish or intend to abide by the Divine will, but choose rather to do their own. Such a man places himself among the enemies of God. (Comp. Jas_2:10.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain One holes the special emphasis, first of the question,…
One holes the special emphasis, first of the question, and then of the direct negative, as though that, in the judgment alike of God and man, was the only answer that could be given to it in the very words of the. (Lev_20:9, Lev_20:11, Lev_20:13)
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