I will feed them in a good pasture, Psalms 23:2, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be, where the rich meadows of the uplands offered food in luscious abundance; there shall they lie in a good fold, in safe dwelling-places, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel, where the Lord Himself provided the richest of food.
Ezekiel 34:1. The shepherds of Israel were the kings and princes and all who had authority over them. The prophet Jeremiah had received a similar message Jeremiah 23:1. These shepherds of Israel were...
Therefore these evil shepherds must be replaced by none other than Yahweh Himself, the great Shepherd of the sheep, who will lovingly tend them, and seek them out on the dark and cloudy day, and bring...
Jehovah first seeks out his sheep (Ezekiel 34:11), then he delivers them out of the places where they are scattered (Ezekiel 34:12), then he leads them into their own land (Ezekiel 34:13), where he fe...
Jehovah himself will undertake the care of his flock...
B. The Divine Shepherd 34:11-22 TRANSLATION (11) For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, Here am I, and I will search for My sheep, and seek them out. (12) As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day he...
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel....
34:14 of (c-14) Lit. 'mountains of the height of.'...
THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 33-48) So long as the Jewish kingdom remained in existence Ezekiel's prophecies (those in Ezekiel 1-24) dealt almost exclusively with the nation's sin, and with the certainty o...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 34 THE FALSE *SHEPHERDS OF *ISRAEL – EZEKIEL 34:1-10 v1
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THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM Ezekiel 34:1 The term "Messianic" as commonly applied to Old Testament prophecy bears two different senses, a wider and a narrower. In its wider use it is almost equivalent to t...
SELFISH SHEPHERDS Ezekiel 34:1-16 The shepherds of this chapter were not the religious leaders of the people, but rulers who sought in their government not the good of the people but their own selfis...
The next prophecy dealt ultimately with the one Shepherd. It opened with an indictment of the false shepherds through whom all these evil things had happened to the people. Their sin had been that the...
What a sweet relief doth this part of the Chapter afford, after beholding what went before, in the unfaithfulness of false shepherds, to hear what is promised to the true. Reader! you will not, I am s...
The end of Jeremiah has given us an account of the fulfilment of Ezekiel's words; but all these judgments give room for the intervention of God in behalf of His people by means of sovereign grace acco...
I WILL FEED THEM IN A GOOD PASTURE,.... Or with good food, as the Targum: such as the fulness of grace in Christ, where believers go in and out, and find pasture; and where they may feed to the full,...
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and [in] a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel....
_Behold, I, even I, will search my sheep_ I myself will recall them from their wanderings into the right way; _and will seek them out_ Hebrew, בקדתים, _I will seek them early_, or, _seek them in the m...
7-16 The Lord declared that he intended mercy towards the scattered flock. Doubtless this, in the first place, had reference to the restoration of the Jews. It also represented the good Shepherd's te...
IN A GOOD PASTURE; in fat, sweet, plentiful pastures. THEIR FOLD BE; to rest in there for safety; they shall settle their habitations upon their return: or there my flock, my people, my church shall d...
Ezekiel 34:14 feed H7462 (H8799) good H2896 pasture H4829 fold H5116 high H4791 mountains H2022 Israel H3478 down
“As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep who are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep. And I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered...
The former part of the chapter contains a prophetic denunciation against the evil shepherds, the men who fed not the flocks, but fed themselves, who fouled, with their filthy feet, the waters where th...
Ezekiel 34:11. _For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out._ Here is a divine One come to seek and to save. The shepherds had neglected and scattered...
Ezekiel 34:11. _For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scatter...
CONTENTS: Message to the faithless shepherds of Israel. Promise of restoration of Israel, and setting up of the kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Those will have a great deal to answer...
Ezekiel 34:2. _Woe to the shepherds of Israel._ The character of the pastors which follow, distinguishes the industrious from the idle shepherds: the words apply to magistrates and ministers. A magist...
_I, even I, will both search My sheep, and seek them out._ THE FLOCK SOUGHT AND FOUND Is the Great Shepherd to leave the stray sheep to wander and perish? or is He to pity and reclaim them? In the Cr...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 34:1 As the move toward restoration continues, Ezekiel describes the nation and its leaders as sheep and shepherds. He addresses the shepherds (vv. Ezekiel 34:1) and then the s
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 34:11 God intervenes to reverse, step by step, the process described above. He repairs the damage caused by the failed shepherds (vv. Ezekiel 34:2,...
THE REPROOF OF THE FALSE SHEPHERDS AND A PROMISE OF THE GOOD AND TRUE SHEPHERD (Chap. 34) EXPLANATORY NOTES.— Ezekiel 34:1. “PROPHESY AGAINST THE SHEPHERDS.” “The trouble which the prophet here encoun...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 34:1 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD, etc. As no date is given, we may infer that what follows came as an almost immediate sequel to that which precedes it. The kernel of the chapter is f...
Ezekiel 34:11. _For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I come (I, the proprietor of the sheep, now appear on the field in their behalf), and seek after my flock, and search them out._ Ezekiel 34:12....
Now in chapter 34, God speaks out against those faithless shepherds of Israel. Those men that were the spiritual leaders, those men to whom the people looked for spiritual guidance, who had left the r...
Ezekiel 34:27; Isaiah 25:6; Isaiah 30:23; Isaiah 30:24; Isaiah 40:11
A PROPHECY AGAINST THE SHEPHERDS Ezekiel 34:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have a pleasant task before us. We have been asked to present Christ as the Good and Great and Chief Shepherd of the sheep, as ov...