Ezekiel 18:17

From dishonesty, hath turned back his hand Neither interest nor increase, hath accepted, my regulations, hath executed, In my statutes, hath walked,— He shall not die for the iniquity of his father He shall surely live.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

In Context

16And no man, hath he treated with violence, Hath by no means withholden the pledge, And plunder, hath not seized,— His bread—to the famished, hath given And the naked, hath covered with clothing;

18His father Because he exacted unjust gain Seized plunder of a brother, And that which was not good, had done in the midst of his people Therefore lo! he died, in his iniquity.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:4My regulations, shall ye do, And, my statutes, shall ye observe to walk therein,—I—Yahweh, am your God.

Leviticus 18:30Therefore shall ye keep my charge, So that ye may have nothing to do with any of the abominable statutes with which they have had to do before you, So shall ye not make yourselves unclean thereby,—I—Yahweh, am your God.

Psalms 119:3Yea, they have not wrought perversity, In his ways, have they walked.

Proverbs 29:7The righteous doth acknowledge the plea of the poor, but, the lawless, regardeth not knowledge.

Jeremiah 16:11Then shalt thou say unto them,—For that your fathers forsook, me, Declareth Yahweh, And walked after other gods, and served them, and bowed down to them,—Whereas me, they forsook And my law, kept they not;

Jeremiah 22:16[Did he not] plead the cause of the oppressed and the needy, And, then, it was well? Was not, that, to know, me? Demandeth Yahweh.

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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