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Ezekiel 18

Ezek. 18:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yet ye say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, The way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
of the Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
is not equal
takan (Hebrew #8505)
to balance, i.e. measure out (by weight or dimension); figuratively, arrange, equalize, through the idea of levelling (ment. estimate, test)
KJV usage: bear up, direct, be ((un-))equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh.
Pronounce: taw-kan'
Origin: a primitive root
. Hear
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
now, O house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
; Is not my way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
equal
takan (Hebrew #8505)
to balance, i.e. measure out (by weight or dimension); figuratively, arrange, equalize, through the idea of levelling (ment. estimate, test)
KJV usage: bear up, direct, be ((un-))equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh.
Pronounce: taw-kan'
Origin: a primitive root
? are not your ways
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
unequal
takan (Hebrew #8505)
to balance, i.e. measure out (by weight or dimension); figuratively, arrange, equalize, through the idea of levelling (ment. estimate, test)
KJV usage: bear up, direct, be ((un-))equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh.
Pronounce: taw-kan'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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Ezek. 18:29• 29Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? (Ezek. 18:29)
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Ezek. 33:17,20• 17Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
 20Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. (Ezek. 33:17,20)
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Job 32:2• 2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God. (Job 32:2)
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Job 34:5‑10• 5For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
 6Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
 7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
 8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
 9For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
 10Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. (Job 34:5‑10)
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Job 35:2• 2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? (Job 35:2)
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Job 40:8• 8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? (Job 40:8)
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Job 42:4‑6• 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
 5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
 6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:4‑6)
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Mal. 2:17• 17Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17)
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Mal. 3:13‑15• 13Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
 14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
 15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. (Mal. 3:13‑15)
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Matt. 20:11‑15• 11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
 12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
 13But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
 14Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
 15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? (Matt. 20:11‑15)
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Rom. 3:5,20• 5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
 20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:5,20)
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Rom. 9:20• 20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? (Rom. 9:20)
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Rom. 10:3• 3For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. (Rom. 10:3)
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Gen. 18:25• 25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? (Gen. 18:25)
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Deut. 32:4• 4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)
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Psa. 50:6• 6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. (Psa. 50:6)
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Psa. 145:17• 17The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. (Psa. 145:17)
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Jer. 12:1• 1Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? (Jer. 12:1)
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Zeph. 3:5• 5The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. (Zeph. 3:5)
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Rom. 2:5‑6• 5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
 6Who will render to every man according to his deeds: (Rom. 2:5‑6)
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Psa. 50:21• 21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. (Psa. 50:21)
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Jer. 2:17‑23,29‑37• 17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
 18And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
 19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.
 20For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
 21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
 22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
 23How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
 29Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
 30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
 31O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
 32Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
 33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
 34Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
 35Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
 36Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
 37Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them. (Jer. 2:17‑23,29‑37)
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Jer. 16:10‑13• 10And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?
 11Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
 12And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
 13Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not show you favor. (Jer. 16:10‑13)
• The mouth of Israel is closed. Their murmurs were but cavils. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? (“Notes on Ezekiel 18-19” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear then, house of Israel. Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?