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Verse Ezekiel 34:20. _I WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THE FAT CATTLE AND BETWEEN
THE_ _LEAN CATTLE._] Between the _rich_ and the _poor_; those who
_fare_ _sumptuously_ every day and those who have not the _neces...
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Yahweh having promised to be a Ruler of His people, the administration
of the divine kingdom is now described, as carried on by One King, the
representative of David, whose dominion should fulfill all...
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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...
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But among the flock there were differences too, the strong (_i.e._ the
rich) treating the weak with selfishness and brutality. This too will
end....
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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...
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will
judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THE FAT CATTLE AND BETWEEN THE
L...
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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...
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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
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לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה
אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם...
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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...
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“SHOWERS OF BLESSING”
Ezekiel 34:17-31
Though God now often seems to make no difference between the
oppressors and the oppressed, the time is fast coming when He will
make momentous and lasting dist...
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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...
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Here we have, in the midst of many gracious promises, the Lord's
address to the flock itself. As in the circumstances of life, in a
wilderness state, even the flock of Jesus, like the flock of the
fie...
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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...
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THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD UNTO THEM,.... To the rams and he
goats of the flock, that use the pastures and defile the waters after
this manner, and make them unfit for the lesser cattle; or tha...
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, [even] I, will
judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
Ver. 20. _I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle._] These are,
s...
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17-31 The whole nation seemed to be the Lord's flock, yet they were
very different characters; but he knew how to distinguish between
them. By good pastures and deep waters, are meant the pure word o...
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I, EVEN I: see EZEKIEL 34:11,17. I am judge by office and I will
vindicate and right the poor by judgment. THE FAT CATTLE; the rich,
voluptuous, and wanton ones. THE LEAN CATTLE; the poor and indigent...
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Ezekiel 34:20 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 judge H8199
(H8804) fat H1274 H7716 lean...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_I judge between cattle and cattle._
SELFISH SCRAMBLE AND CHRISTIAN SERVICE
It presents to us the scene, far too often enacted in human life, of a
selfish scramble--a scramble for position, for mone...
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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
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 34:17 The remainder of the chapter is
addressed to the flock: vv. Ezekiel 34:17 condemn victimization within
the flock; vv....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Ezekiel 34:10; Ezekiel 34:17; Matthew 25:31; Psalms 22:12...
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I will judge — I will vindicate the poor. The fat cattle — The
rich. The lean — The poor....