(though he himself did none of these things), who even eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,
A godly father's prayers and pains cannot compel his son's obedience. The child may have every advantage, instruction, discipline, example, yet still shake off all good and run to robbery and idolatry, becoming the grief of his family and the curse of his generation. Parentage changes nothing in God's reckoning.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 18:10-20
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase,.... Contrary to the law of God; See Gill on Eze 18:8; shall he then live? by virtue of his father's righteousness and goodness, free from calamities, and in the quiet possession of the land of Israel, and the good things of it: he shall not live; but go into captivity, and be destitute of the good...
those duties--which his father did (Eze 18:5, Eze 18:9).