Ezekiel 18:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Ezekiel 18:8. Shall he then live? Do you think his father's righteousness shall preserve him from the punishment his own unrighteousness deserveth, my law threateneth, and my justice inflicteth? Shall he not with other sinners be spoiled, besieged, die by the sword or famine, or languish in a long captivity, and there die? He shall not live; a decisive answer to the former question; such a one shall not prosper, nor long escape the strokes of my justice; and the answer is parallel with that Ezekiel 17:10. He hath done all these abominations; is personally involved in the sins which are worthy of death, and which are so expressly threatened by law and prophets. Done; not only winked at, or not hindered, but hath been a forward, voluntary, active doer of them. All these that are here, and elsewhere in this prophet, and in others, charged on the Jews as the cause of their calamities at this day. Abominations; great enormities, sins to be abominated and hated, not practised and justified by shameless sinners. He shall surely die; most certainly die; or if you suppose such a one finally impenitent, he shall surely die under temporal judgments, and so by the first death fall under the second death also: dying he shall die; a Hebrew phrase, and very full. His blood shall be upon him; Heb. it is plural, bloods: both the blood of the innocent which he murdered, and his own blood, which thereby he forfeited, the blood of his own soul and life, that is, the whole blame of his misery in time and eternity, shall lie upon himself, who brought all those sorrows on himself by his own wickednesses.