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Verse Ezekiel 34:4. _THE DISEASED HAVE YE NOT STRENGTHENED_] No
person is fit for the office of a shepherd, who does not _well
understand_ the _diseases_ to which sheep are incident, and the _mode
of...
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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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IMPORTANCE OF GOOD GOVERNMENT. But besides moral excellence on the
part of its citizens (Ezekiel 33) a state needs good government. This
chapter is a very severe indictment of the rulers or kings of I...
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NEITHER. Note the Figure of speech _Paradiastole_ (App-6), emphasising
the five counts.
ORUELTY. rigour. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 1:13; Exodus
1:14.Leviticus 25:46;...
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Five classes are here mentioned, in Ezekiel 34:16 only four, the
"diseased" being wanting, and "strengthen" used here of the diseased
is said there of the sick. The "broken" is the hurt or bruised; th...
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DRIVEN AWAY— _Gone astray:_ and so Ezekiel 34:16....
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II. REPLACEMENT OF CORRUPT LEADERS
34:1-31
Israel's past sin and punishment stemmed largely from corrupt and
selfish leadership. The first step in Ezekiel's program of
reconstruction for the nation...
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The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that
which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken,
neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither ha...
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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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אֶֽת ־הַ נַּחְלֹות֩ לֹ֨א חִזַּקְתֶּ֜ם
וְ אֶת
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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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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...
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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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The (c) diseased ye have not strengthened, neither have ye healed that
which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken,
neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neith...
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_Healed. God alone can restore to life. But pastors will not be
excused by ignorance if they know not the maladies and the remedies of
their flock. --- Hand. This was blamed in the Pharisees, and is
c...
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This Chapter begins with a woe, and an awful charge follows. Who are
particularly meant here by the Shepherds, is not said; perhaps both
Priests and Levites; the Elders, and all that had a charge; (fo...
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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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THE DISEASED HAVE YE NOT STRENGTHENED,.... Such, in the civil polity,
who were poor, and in necessitous circumstances, were not relieved;
such who were injured and oppressed by others were not vindica...
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The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that
which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken,
neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither h...
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_Ye eat the fat_ Or, _the milk_, as the LXX. render it. The Hebrew
words _chalab_, milk, and _cheleb_, fat, differ only in their points,
so that the ancient versions take them promiscuously one for th...
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WOE UPON THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL...
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The diseased have ye not strengthened, though they were weak with the
effects of illness, NEITHER HAVE YE HEALED THAT WHICH WAS SICK,
NEITHER HAVE YE BOUND UP THAT WHICH WAS BROKEN, such as were cripp...
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1-6 The people became as sheep without a shepherd, were given up as a
prey to their enemies, and the land was utterly desolated. No rank or
office can exempt from the reproofs of God's word, men who n...
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THE WEAK AND LANGUISHING, (such there are in the church and state,)
with your hand, countenance, and counsel; so these metaphorical
shepherds should as the other strengthen their sheep, with carrying...
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Ezekiel 34:4 weak H2470 (H8737) strengthened H2388 (H8765) healed
H7495 (H8765) sick H2470 (H8802) up...
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“You eat the fat and you clothe yourselves with the wool. You kill
the fatlings. But you do not feed the sheep. You have not strengthened
the diseased, nor have you healed those who are sick, nor have...
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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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_Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not
the shepherds feed the flocks?_
THE UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERDS
I. Human rulers stand in the same relation to the people whom they
rul...
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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 34:2 Describing rulers as SHEPHERDS was
widespread in the ancient Near East. David is the model of a
shepherd-king (2 Samuel 5:2;...
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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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CHAPTER 34.
THE PROMISE OF THE TRUE SHEPHERD, AFTER THE FALSE SHEPHERDS HAVE BEEN
PUNISHED AND REMOVED.
IN the preceding chapter the prophet has announced the first condition
of an improved state of...
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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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1 Peter 5:2; 1 Peter 5:3; 2 Corinthians 1:24; Exodus 1:13; Exodus
1:14;
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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...