Ezekiel 18:4
Context18:4 Indeed! All lives are mine – the life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The one 1 who sins will die.
Ezekiel 18:11
Context18:11 (though the father did not do any of them). 2 He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, 3 defiles his neighbor’s wife,
Ezekiel 18:18
Context18:18 As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 22:7
Context22:7 They have treated father and mother with contempt 4 within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow 5 within you.
Ezekiel 44:25
Context44:25 “‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; 6 however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, they may defile themselves.
1 tn Heb “life.”
2 tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses.
3 sn See note on “mountains” in v. 6.
4 tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”
5 tn Widows and orphans are often coupled together in the OT (Deut 14:29; 16:11, 14; 24:19-21; 26:12-13; Jer 7:6; 22:3). They represented all who were poor and vulnerable to economic exploitation.
6 sn This law was part of the legal code for priests (Lev 21:1-3).