Ezekiel 18:2
"What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge'?
Cross References
Job 21:19
It is said that God lays up one's punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

Isaiah 3:15
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 31:29
"In those days, it will no longer be said: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.'

Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

Ezekiel 12:22
"Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: 'The days go by, and every vision fails'?

Ezekiel 16:44
Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.'

Ezekiel 18:1
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 18:3
As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.

Ezekiel 18:19
Yet you may ask, 'Why shouldn't the son bear the iniquity of his father?' Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.


Treasury of Scripture
What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

mean



Ezekiel 17:12
Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;



Isaiah 3:15
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.



Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

the land



Ezekiel 6:2,3
Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, …



Ezekiel 7:2
Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.



Ezekiel 25:3
And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

The fathers



Jeremiah 15:4
And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.



Jeremiah 31:29,30
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge…



Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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