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Punishing the Children for the Father’s Sin

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Verse Observations: Ps 21:11, Jb 27:14-15

Isn’t what Jeremiah said in Jeremiah 32:18-19 contradictory? (You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts, 19 great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.)

Isn’t this evidence that salvation can be inherited? (Is 48:18-19) (see also The Interwovenness of Human Lives & Their Inevitable Mutual Effects on Each Other)

Why should a people be blessed or cursed based solely on their ancestor? (Gn 49:1)
Another example of this: The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you. (Psalm 102:28)

I think it really sucks for the tribes of the concubines that they're always second-rate tribes. (map on p 1578 of the ESV Study Bible & diagram on p 267) Better to have put them by order of birth. This also is an upholding of polygamy, since the sons are ranked according to their mother's rank as wives.


Why would they have to confess the sins of their fathers, when they had nothing to do with them? (Lv 26:39-40, 42)

God wanted to punish Judah for Manasseh's sin and the sins that he made the people commit, but how is this fair, since the capture and exile of Judah happened 42 ½ years after Manasseh died? So God would be punishing the wrong people. (II Kgs 24:3) (see also The Interwovenness of Human Lives & Their Inevitable Mutual Effects on Each Other)


Punishing Judah for the sin of Hezekiah, but at the same time, punishing the wrong generation: (II Chr 32:25-26) (see also The Interwovenness of Human Lives & Their Inevitable Mutual Effects on Each Other)

Why did God want Saul to kill the Amalekites because of something they did hundreds of years ago to the Israelites as they were coming out of Egypt? Why did he want to punish the wrong people? (I Sm 15:2-3)

Ham’s descendants didn’t deserve to be cursed because of the sin of their father. (Gn 9:21-25)

How could Elisha or God justly punish Gehazi's children too? (II Kgs 5:27)

Why did God allow David to follow through with and even encourage David to satisfy the wishes of the Gibeonites for revenge, if taking revenge is wrong? (II Sm 21:1)

Wouldn’t God be contradicting himself here? (About punishing the children for the father’s sins) (Dt 24:16, 23:2-4, 6-8)

Why did Joram the son of Ahab die in punishment for his father's sins concerning Naboth's land? What did it matter if his body was used to fulfill the prophecy? He was not the one who took Naboth's vineyard. (II Kgs 9:24-26)


Reuben’s descendants were cursed, Judah’s blessed, though they had not even been born and had done nothing neither good nor bad, but their fates were decided by their ancestors. (Gn 49:3-4, 8-12)
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