Ezekiel 18:13

13 he 1lends money on interest and takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death; his 2blood will be on his own head.

Ezekiel 18:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 18:13

Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase
Contrary to the law of God; (See Gill on Ezekiel 18:8); shall he then live?
by virtue of his father's righteousness and goodness, free from calamities, and in the quiet possession of the land of Israel, and the good things of it: he shall not live;
but go into captivity, and be destitute of the good things of life he has enjoyed; and, without repentance, shall never have eternal life: he hath done all these abominations;
before mentioned; theft, murder, idolatry, adultery, oppression of the poor, and usury, sins against both tables of the law: he shall surely die;
the death of affliction, or undergo temporal punishment; and not only die corporeally, but eternally too, if grace prevent not: "in dying he shall die" F6; as in the Hebrew text; he shall die both the first and second death; his father's goodness shall not save him from either: his blood shall be upon him;
or "bloods" F7; the innocent blood he has shed, which he must answer for being guilty of, and shall not escape righteous judgment, and his own blood, the destruction of himself; he shall be the cause of his own ruin, and bring just punishment on his own head.


FOOTNOTES:

F6 (tmwy twm) "moriendo morietur", Pagninus, Montanus.
F7 (wymd) "sanguines ejus", Montanus.

Ezekiel 18:13 In-Context

11 (though he himself did not do any of these things ), that is, he even eats at the mountain shrines, and defiles his neighbor's wife,
12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, but lifts up his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,
13 he lends money on interest and takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.
14 "Now behold, he has a son who has observed all his father's sins which he committed, and observing does not do likewise.
15 "He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife,

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