Ezekiel 18:2
"What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: 'The fathers eat sour grapes, but the children's teeth 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 that he may 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 this has set the children's teeth 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, everyone who quotes proverbs will recite 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 should the son not bear the iniquity of the father?' Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.

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mean

Ezekiel 17:12
"Now say to this rebellious house: 'Do you not know what these things mean?' Tell them, 'Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

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

Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

the land

Ezekiel 6:2, 3
"Son of man, turn your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them. . . .

Ezekiel 7:2
"O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: 'The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 25:3
Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because you exclaimed, "Aha!" when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,

Ezekiel 36:1-6
And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD. . . .

Ezekiel 37:11, 19, 25
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.' . . .

The fathers

Jeremiah 15:4
I 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.

Jeremiah 31:29, 30
"In those days, it will no longer be said: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and this has set the children's teeth on edge.' . . .

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

Matthew 23:36
Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

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