Ezekiel 18:14 Cross References - NSB

¹⁴ ‘»Now suppose this son has a son. The son sees all the sins that his father does. He is afraid, so he does not do such things.

³ In the first month of his first year as king, he opened the doors of Jehovah’s temple and repaired them. ⁴ He assembled the priests and Levites in the square on the east side of the temple. ⁵ He said: »Listen to me, Levites. Perform the ceremonies to make the temple of Jehovah the God of your ancestors holy. Remove anything that has been corrupted from the holy place. ⁶ »Our ancestors were unfaithful and did what Jehovah our God considered evil. They deserted him. They turned away from Jehovah’s tent and turned their backs on him. ⁷ »They also shut the doors of the temple’s entrance hall. They extinguished the lamps, and did not burn incense or sacrifice burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. ⁸ »Jehovah was angry with Judah and Jerusalem. He made them something that shocks and terrifies people and that people ridicule, as you can see with your own eyes. ⁹ »Our fathers were killed in battle. Our sons, daughters, and wives are prisoners because of this. ¹⁰ »Now I intend to make a pledge to Jehovah the God of Israel so that he may turn his burning anger away from us. ¹¹ »Do not be negligent, my sons. Jehovah has chosen you to stand in front of him, serve him, be his servants, and burn sacrifices.«

²¹ »On behalf of those who are left in Israel and Judah and me, ask Jehovah about the words in this book that was found. Jehovah’s fierce anger has been poured on us because our ancestors did not obey the word of Jehovah by doing everything written in this book.«

⁵⁹ I considered my ways and turned my feet to your laws. ⁶⁰ I hurried and did not delay to keep your commandments.

²¹ He who gives birth to a fool does it to his sorrow because the father of a fool has no joy.

²⁴ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice and he who gives birth to a wise child will receive joy from him.

¹⁹ No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: »I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.«

⁶ »I paid attention and listened, but they were not honest. They do not turn away from their wickedness. They do not ask: ‘What have we done?’ They go their own ways like horses charging into battle.’«

¹⁴ »They have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals as their fathers taught them.

¹⁷ »We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as our ancestors, our king and our leaders, and we used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.

¹⁰ ‘»Suppose this person has a son who robs and murders. The son does all these other things

²⁸ ‘»He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.

¹⁸ ‘»»I said to their children in the desert: Do not live by the laws of your ancestors. Do not obey their rules or dishonor yourselves with their disgusting idols.

² »It never enters their hearts that I will remember all this evil. But their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them.

⁵ Jehovah of Hosts said: »Consider your ways.

⁷ Then Jehovah said: »Consider your ways.

¹⁸ »Today is the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day that the foundation of the Temple of Jehovah was completed. See what is going to happen from now on.

³² »Fill up the (guilt) measure of your fathers.

¹⁷ »Finally it dawned on him, my father’s hired workers have more than they can eat and I am about to starve! ¹⁸ »I will go to my father and say: ‘Father I have sinned against God and against you. ¹⁹ »I am not fit to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired workers.’

¹⁸ Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,