Ezekiel 18:11

He eats meat sacrificed to idols on the hilltops. He has sex with other people’s wives.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife,

In Context

10But suppose that man has a son who acts violently, who murders people and does any of these other things, even though his father has not done any of them:

12He mistreats/oppresses poor and needy people. He robs people. If someone gives him his cloak to guarantee that he will pay the money back, he never gives the cloak back to him before the sun goes down. He seeks help from idols. He does other detestable things.

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Cross References

1 Kings 13:8But the prophet replied, “Even if you would promise to give me half of everything that you own [MTY], I will not go with you, and I will not eat or drink anything with you here,

Ezekiel 18:6He does not eat meat sacrificed to idols on the hilltops, he does not request help from idols. He does not have sex with someone else’s wife or have sex with a woman during her monthly menstrual period.

Matthew 7:21“ Even though many people habitually call me ‘Lord’, pretending that they have my authority, some of them will not go to heaven where God rules, because they do not do what he desires. Only those people who do what my Father, who is in heaven, desires will go there.

John 13:17Since you now know these things, God will be pleased with you if you do them.”

Philippians 4:9Those things that I have taught you and that you have learned from me, those things that you have heard me say and that you have seen me do, those are the things that you yourselves should continually do. As a result of your doing those things, God, the one who causes us to have inner peace, will ◄be with/bless► you.

1 John 3:22And, when we confidently pray to him and request something from him, we receive it because we do what he commands us to do, and because we do what pleases him.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 18:11-21

The Ways of God Justified; God's Vindication of Himself. ( b. c. 593.) 10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things, 11 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, 12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, 13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase:… Read the whole commentary →

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