Ezekiel 3:18

When I say to the wicked, “You will certainly die,” ¹  and you do not warn him – you do not speak out to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked deed and wicked lifestyle so that he may live – that wicked person will die for his iniquity, ²  but I will hold you accountable for his death. ³ 

Ge 2:17; Ge 3:3,4; Ge 9:5,6; Ge 42:22; Nu 26:65; 2Sa 4:11; 2Ki 1:4; Pr 14:32; Isa 3:11; Eze 18:4,13,20; Eze 18:30-32; Eze 33:6,8; Eze 33:6,9,10; Eze 34:10; Lu 11:50,51; Lu 13:3,5; Joh 8:21,24; Ac 2:40; Ac 3:19; Ac 20:26,27; Eph 5:5,6; 1Ti 4:16; 1Ti 5:22; Jas 5:19,20

¹ sn Even though the infinitive absolute is used to emphasize the warning, the warning is still implicitly conditional, as the following context makes clear.

² tn Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and v. 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

³ tn Heb “his blood I will seek from your hand.” The expression “seek blood from the hand” is equivalent to requiring the death penalty (2 Sam 4:11-12).