Ezekiel 18:2 BSB — MannaFest

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’?

BSB

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ASV

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?

KJV

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?

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

Heretics, who do not accept the Old Testament, often say in this place against the Creator: How good and just is the God of the Law and the Prophets, who, by remaining quiet and silent about the sins of the fathers, renders punishment to those who have not sinned; rather, what cruelty is in Him that He extends His anger even to the third and fourth generation! To whom shall we respond, and in this the clemency of God the Creator is demonstrated.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? - We have seen this proverb already, Jer 31:29, etc., and have considered its general meaning. But the subject is here proposed in greater detail, with a variety of circumstances, to adapt it to all those cases to which it should apply. It refers simply to these questions: How far can the moral evil of the parent be extended to his offspring? And, Are the faults and evil propensities of the parents, not only transferred to the children, but punished in them?

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The sin of Adam in eating the forbidden fruit, visited on his posterity, seems to have suggested the peculiar form; noticed also by Jeremiah (Jer 31:29); and explained in La 5:7, "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities." They mean by "the children" themselves, as though they were innocent, whereas they were far from being so.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
לָּכֶ֗ם	la.Khem	[is] to you
אַתֶּם֙	'a.Tem	you	H859 →
מֹֽשְׁלִים֙	mo.she.Lim	[are] speaking a proverb	H4911 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַמָּשָׁ֣ל	ha.ma.Shal	the proverb	H4912 →
הַזֶּ֔ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
אַדְמַ֥ת	'ad.Mat	[the] land of	H127 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
לֵאמֹ֑ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
אָבוֹת֙	'a.Vot	parents	H1 →
יֹ֣אכְלוּ	Yo.khe.lu	they eat	H398 →
בֹ֔סֶר	Vo.ser	sour grape[s]	H1155 →
וְשִׁנֵּ֥י	ve.shi.Nei	and [the] teeth of	H8127 →
הַבָּנִ֖ים	ha.ba.Nim	the children	H1121 →
תִּקְהֶֽינָה׃	tik.Hei.nah	they are blunt	H6949 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
leads to
- Jeremiah 16:12
  And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- 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.’
- Jeremiah 14:20
  We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
- Exodus 20:5
  You 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…
Through
Ezekiel 37:11
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
leads to
- Ephesians 2:1
  And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
- Psalms 77:7–9
  “Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
- Ezekiel 39:25
  Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
- Ezekiel 36:10
  I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

About Ezekiel

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

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06About Ezekiel

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