2 Tawarikh 29:6-10

29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned ²  away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. ³  29:7 They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. 29:8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, ⁴  as you can see with your own eyes. 29:9 Look, our fathers died violently ⁵  and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off ⁶  because of this. 29:10 Now I intend ⁷  to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger. ⁸ 

2 Tawarikh 30:7

30:7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, ⁹  provoking him to destroy them, ¹⁰  as you can see.

2 Tawarikh 34:21

34:21 “Go, seek an oracle from ¹¹  the Lord for me and those who remain in Israel and Judah. Find out about ¹²  the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, ¹³  because our ancestors ¹⁴  have not obeyed the word of the Lord by doing all that this scroll instructs!” ¹⁵ 

Ezra 9:7

9:7 From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and ¹⁶  priests, have been delivered over by the local kings ¹⁷  to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment – right up to the present time.

Nehemia 9:16

9:16 “But they – our ancestors ¹⁸  – behaved presumptuously; they rebelled ¹⁹  and did not obey your commandments.

Mazmur 78:8

78:8 Then they will not be like their ancestors,

who were a stubborn and rebellious generation,

a generation that was not committed

and faithful to God. ²⁰ 

Mazmur 106:6-7

106:6 We have sinned like ²¹  our ancestors; ²² 

we have done wrong, we have done evil.

106:7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds,

they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love,

and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea. ²³ 

Yehezkiel 18:14-17

18:14 “But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father’s example. ²⁴  18:15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, 18:16 does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked, 18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, ²⁵  does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; ²⁶  he will surely live.

Yehezkiel 18:1

Individual Retribution

18:1 The word of the Lord came to me:

Pengkhotbah 1:18

1:18 For with great wisdom comes ²⁷  great frustration;

whoever increases his ²⁸  knowledge merely ²⁹  increases his ³⁰  heartache.

[29:6]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[29:6]  ² tn Heb “turned their faces.”

[29:6]  ³ tn Heb “and turned the back.”

[29:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”

[29:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “fell by the sword.”

[29:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “are in captivity.”

[29:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”

[29:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention.

[30:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).

[30:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).

[34:21]  ¹¹ tn Or “inquire of.”

[34:21]  ¹² tn Heb “concerning.”

[34:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “for great is the anger of the Lord which has been ignited against us.”

[34:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 32, 33).

[34:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “by doing according to all that is written on this scroll.”

[9:7]  ¹⁶ tc The MT lacks “and” here, but see the LXX and Vulgate.

[9:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the kings of the lands.”

[9:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and our fathers.” The vav is explicative.

[9:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “they stiffened their neck” (so also in the following verse).

[78:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “a generation that did not make firm its heart and whose spirit was not faithful with God.” The expression “make firm the heart” means “to be committed, devoted” (see 1 Sam 7:3).

[106:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “with.”

[106:6]  ²² tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 7).

[106:7]  ²³ tn Heb “Reed Sea” (also in vv. 9, 22). “Reed Sea” (or “Sea of Reeds”) is a more accurate rendering of the Hebrew expression יָם סוּף (yam suf), traditionally translated “Red Sea.” See the note on the term “Red Sea” in Exod 13:18.

[106:7]  sn They rebelled. The psalmist recalls the people’s complaint recorded in Exod 14:12.

[18:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and he sees and does not do likewise.”

[18:17]  ²⁵ tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.

[18:17]  ²⁶ tn Or “in his father’s punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 18, 19, 20; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

[1:18]  ²⁷ tn This term does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[1:18]  ²⁸ tn This term does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[1:18]  ²⁹ tn This term does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[1:18]  ³⁰ tn This term does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.