19Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
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Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. …
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: …
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)God, by the prophet, having laid down the general rule of judgment, that he will render eternal life to those that patiently continue in well-doing , but indignation and wrath to those that do not obey the truth , but obey unrighteousness ( Rom. 2:7 , 8 ), comes, in these verses, to show that men’s parentage and relation shall not alter the case either one way or other. I. He applied it largely an…
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