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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 18:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 18:9 |
Strong Concordance |
Hath walked [01980] in my statutes [02708], and hath kept [08104] my judgments [04941], to deal [06213] truly [0571]; he is just [06662], he shall surely [02421] live [02421], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]. |
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King James |
Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
truly--with integrity.
surely live--literally, "live in life." Prosper in this life, but still more in the life to come (Pro 3:1-2; Amo 5:4). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Live ... die - In the writings of Ezekiel there is a development of the meaning of "life" and "death." In the holy land the sanctions of divine government were in great degree temporal; so that the promise of "life" for "obedience," the threatening of "death" for "disobedience," in the Books of Moses, were regarded simply as temporal and national. In their exile this could not continue in its full extent, and the universality of the misfortune necessarily made men look deeper into the words of God. The word "soul" denotes a "person" viewed as an "individual," possessing the "life" which God breathed into man when he became a "living soul" Gen 2:7; i. e., it distinguishes "personality" from "nationality," and this introduces that fresh and higher idea of "life" and "death," which is not so much "life" and "death" in a future state, as "life" and "death" as equivalent to communion with or separation from God - that idea of life and death which was explained by our Lord in the Gospel of John John 8, and by Paul in Rom. 8. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Shall live - Shall be delivered from famine, pestilence, and sword, and shall see good days. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Hath walked in my statutes - Not only acknowledging them to be right, but acting according to them. Especially in every thing that relates to my worship, changing nothing, neglecting nothing.
And hath kept my judgments, to deal truly - Has attended to my Divine direction, both with respect to things forbidden, and things commanded. These concern men in their religious conduct.
He is just - צדיק הוא tsaddik hu. He is a righteous man; he has given to all their due; he has abstained from every appearance of evil, and done that which was lawful and right in the sight of God.
He shall surely live - He has lived to me, and he shall live with me. |
4 For thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] unto the house [01004] of Israel [03478], Seek [01875] ye me, and ye shall live [02421]:
1 My son [01121], forget [07911] not my law [08451]; but let thine heart [03820] keep [05341] my commandments [04687]:
2 For length [0753] of days [03117], and long [08141] life [02416], and peace [07965], shall they add [03254] to thee.
7 And the LORD [03068] God [0430] formed [03335] man [0120] of the dust [06083] of [04480] the ground [0127], and breathed [05301] into his nostrils [0639] the breath [05397] of life [02416]; and man [0120] became a living [02416] soul [05315].