Ezekiel 18:6

He 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.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

In Context

5So, suppose there is a righteous person who always does what is fair and right [DOU].

7He does not mistreat/oppress people; if someone borrows money from him and gives him his cloak to guarantee that he will pay the money back, he always gives the cloak back to that person before the sun goes down. He does not rob people. He gives food to hungry people. He gives clothing to people who need clothes.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:19“Do not have sex with any woman while she is having her monthly menstrual period.

Leviticus 20:10‘If a man commits adultery with some other man’s wife, both of them, the man and the woman, must be executed.

Numbers 25:2Then those women invited the men to come when the sacrifices were being offered to their gods. The Israeli men accepted. They went to the feasts with the women and worshiped the gods of the Moab people-group.

Deuteronomy 22:22“If a man is caught while he is having sex with another man’s wife, both of them must be executed. By doing that, you will get rid of this evil practice in Israel.

Psalms 123:1Yahweh, I look up toward you, up to heaven, from where you rule.

Ezekiel 6:13Some of your people’s corpses will lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hilltop and on all the mountaintops, under every big tree [DOU]—at all the places where they burned incense to honor their idols. Then they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 18:2-10

Proverb of the Sour Grapes; Reply to the Sour Grapes; Divine Judgments Vindicated. ( b. c. 593.) 1 The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, 2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, saith the Lord God , ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. 4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that… Read the whole commentary →

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