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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.

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ASV

Yet say ye, Wherefore doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

KJV

Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

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19 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕םva.'a.mar.Temand you sayH559 →
מַדֻּ֛עַma.Du.a'why?H4069 →
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
נָשָׂ֥אna.Sa'has he borneH5375 →
הַבֵּ֖ןha.Benthe childH1121 →
בַּעֲוֹ֣ןba.'a.Vonin [the] iniquity ofH5771 →
הָאָ֑בha.'Avthe parentH1 →
וְהַבֵּ֞ןve.ha.Benand the childH1121 →
מִשְׁפָּ֧טmish.PatjusticeH4941 →
וּצְדָקָ֣הu.tze.da.Kahand righteousnessH6666 →
עָשָׂ֗ה'a.Sahhe has doneH6213 →
אֵ֣ת'et<obj.>H853 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
חֻקּוֹתַ֥יchu.ko.Taistatutes myH2708 →
שָׁמַ֛רsha.Marhe has keptH8104 →
וַיַּעֲשֶׂ֥הvai.ya.'a.Sehand he has doneH6213 →
אֹתָ֖ם'o.Tam<obj.> themH853 →
חָיֹ֥הcha.Yohcertainly <live>H2421 →
יִחְיֶֽה׃yich.Yehhe will liveH2421 →

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Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,Zechariah 1:3–6So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’Deuteronomy 5:9You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,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’?Ezekiel 20:18–20In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.Ezekiel 18:9He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.Jeremiah 15:4I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.Lamentations 5:7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.2 Kings 23:26Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.Ezekiel 20:30Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?Ezekiel 20:24For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.Deuteronomy 6:18Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,Ezekiel 18:21But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.2 Kings 24:3–4Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,2 Kings 9:26‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”Leviticus 26:39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.Luke 11:48So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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