Ezekiel 18:28 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 18:28

Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

KJV

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ASV

Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

WEB

Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

YLT

And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

DBT

Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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Luke 15:17
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Psalms 119:59
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Proverbs 4:26
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

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But, behold, a miracle of mercy; the day of grace and divine patience is yet lengthened out; and therefore, though God will at last judge every one according to his ways, yet he waits to be gracious, and closes all with a call to repentance and a promise of pardon upon repentance. Here are four necessary duties that we are called to, all amounting to the same:-- 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), because it is a matter of vast importance, a matter of life and death, of life and death eternal. A fair invitation given to wicked people, to turn from their wickedness. Assurance is here given us that, if the wicked will turn, he shall surely live,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

When he considers he must turn away from his wickedness, which denotes a change in the disposition of the heart; he must turn from his sins and his transgression, which denotes a change in the life; he must break off from all his evil courses, and, wherein he has done iniquity, must resolve to do so no more, and this from a principle of hatred to sin.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Whereas it was said, The soul that sins it shall die, yet let not those that have sinned despair but that the threatened death may be prevented if they will but turn and repent in time. When David penitently acknowledges, I have sinned, he is immediately assured of his pardon: " The Lord has taken away thy sin, thou shalt not die ( 2 Sam. xii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The two last instances repeated in inverse order. God's emphatic statement of His principle of government needs no further proof than the simple statement of it. in them--in the actual sins, which are the manifestations of the principle of "iniquity," mentioned just before.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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