Ezekiel 20:4

World English Bible (2000)

Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲתִשְׁפֹּ֣ט אֹתָ֔ם הֲתִשְׁפּ֖וֹט בֶּן־אָדָ֑ם אֶת־תּוֹעֲבֹ֥ת אֲבוֹתָ֖ם הוֹדִיעֵֽם׃

Transliteration

hătišpōṭ them? hătišpôṭ ben-ʾādām? ʾet-tôʿăbōt ʾăbôtām hôdîʿēm.

Grammar Details

• *hătišpōṭ*: interrogative + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - will you judge?
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *hătišpôṭ*: interrogative + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - will you judge?
• *ben*: noun, masculine singular construct - son of
• *ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular - man/mankind
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *tôʿăbōt*: noun, feminine plural construct - abominations of
• *ʾăbôtām*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their fathers
• *hôdîʿēm*: hiphil imperative, masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - make them know/inform them

Word Meanings

• *hătišpōṭ*: will you judge/will you enter into judgment with/will you condemn?
• *tôʿăbōt*: abominations/detestable things/abhorrent practices
• *hôdîʿēm*: make them know/inform them/cause them to know

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 22:2 : 2 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
• Ezek 23:36 : 36 Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.
• Ezek 23:45 : 45 Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
• Matt 23:29-37 : 29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous, 30 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' 31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? 34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
• Luke 11:47-51 : 47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
• Luke 13:33-35 : 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.' 34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused! 35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"
• Acts 7:51-52 : 51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. 52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
• 1 Cor 6:2 : 2 Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
• Isa 5:3 : 3 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
• Jer 7:16 : 16 Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
• Jer 11:14 : 14 Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
• Jer 14:11-14 : 11 Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for [their] good. 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. 13 Then I said, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. 14 Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
• Jer 15:1 : 1 Then Yahweh said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
• Ezek 14:14 : 14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Ezek 14:20 : 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
• Ezek 16:2-3 : 2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations; 3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.