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Ezekiel 18:10-13
A contrasting second example catalogs corrupt behaviors and ends with a decisive judgment to show consequences follow the doer.
Meaning in context
A son is introduced as violent and predatory: a “robber” and a “shedder of blood.”
He refuses the community’s proper “duties” and participates in illicit mountain feasts while committing adultery.
He oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and refuses to return what was pledged.
He turns toward idols, practices exploitative lending, and the text concludes with a legal-style outcome: he will not live; he will surely die, and “his blood is on him.”
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A violent son and his outcome
A contrasting second example catalogs corrupt behaviors and ends with a decisive judgment to show consequences follow the doer.
Movement
Glory, judgment, and restoration
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Visions in exile
Biblical Timeline
Exile & Return
Ezekiel context: 586 BC - 400 BC
Biblical Timeline
Exile & Return
Ezekiel context
Exile & Return / 586 BC - 400 BC
Ezekiel context is set in the exile and return, where Babylonian exile, return, rebuilding, and renewed covenant life under Persian rule.
Scripture Text
Thesis
A contrasting second example catalogs corrupt behaviors and ends with a decisive judgment to show consequences follow the doer.
Plain Meaning
A son is introduced as violent and predatory: a “robber” and a “shedder of blood.”
He refuses the community’s proper “duties” and participates in illicit mountain feasts while committing adultery.
He oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and refuses to return what was pledged.
He turns toward idols, practices exploitative lending, and the text concludes with a legal-style outcome: he will not live; he will surely die, and “his blood is on him.”
Literary Context
This scene belongs to Ezekiel’s argument about individual accountability within a three-generation illustration in Ezekiel 18. Verses 10–13 present the second generation: a son whose conduct is the inverse of the father’s described integrity, setting up the later contrast with a grandson.
Historical Context
Ezekiel addresses Judeans living under Neo-Babylonian administration after deportations from Judah. Displacement, loss of land, and contested community norms made questions of blame and social stability urgent, and the passage names concrete abuses that tear at communal life.
Theological Significance
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