Ezekiel 18:9

He faithfully obeys all [DOU] my laws. That man is truly righteous; he will remain alive. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, promise.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

8When he lends money to people, he does not do it just to charge big interest. He does not do [SYN] things that are evil. He always decides things fairly.

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:

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:1“Now, you Israeli people, obey all the rules and regulations [DOU] that I will teach you. If you do that, you will remain alive and you will enter and occupy/capture the land that Yahweh, the God whom your ancestors worshiped, is giving to you.

Deuteronomy 6:1“These are the commandments and rules and regulations that Yahweh our God commanded me to teach to you. He wants you to obey them in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.

Deuteronomy 10:12“Now, you Israeli people, I will tell you [RHQ] what Yahweh our God requires/demands that you do. He requires you to revere him, to conduct your lives as he wants you to, to love him, and to serve him wholeheartedly [DOU],

1 Kings 9:4“And as for you, if you conduct your life as I want you to, like your father David did, and if you very sincerely obey all the statutes and laws that I have commanded you to obey,

Psalms 19:7The instructions that Yahweh has given us are perfect; they ◄revive us/give us new strength►. We can be sure that the things that Yahweh has told us will never change, and by learning them people who have not been previously taught/instructed will become wise.

Psalms 105:44He gave to them the land that belonged to the people-groups that lived there in Canaan, and the Israelis harvested crops that other people had planted.

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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