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CHAPTER XXXIV
_The prophet is commanded to declare the dreadful judgments of_
_God against the covetous shepherds of Israel, who feed_
_themselves, and not their flocks; by which emblem the priests...
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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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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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CAME UNTO ME— "It is probable that this prophesy immediately
followed the preceding. At or before the arrival of the news that
Jerusalem was conquered, the prophet was to speak of the tyranny and
care...
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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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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Having in Ezekiel 33:1 laid down repentance as the necessary
preliminary to happier times for the people, he now promises the
removal of the false she...
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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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וַ יְהִ֥י דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵ
אמֹֽר
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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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CONTENTS
The Prophet is here again instructing the Church by figure, in
representing the unfaithfulness of the Shepherds who neglect the
Lord's fold, and the faithfulness of Jesus the first Shepherd,...
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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 WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME,.... The date of this prophecy is
not given; however, it seems to have been delivered after the
destruction of Jerusalem; the causes of which are mentioned, the sins...
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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ver. 1. _And the word._] See Ezekiel 18:1 ....
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_The word of the Lord came unto me, saying_ It is probable that this
prophecy immediately followed the preceding; and that at, or
immediately after, the arrival of the news that Jerusalem was
conquere...
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And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,...
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WOE UPON THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL...
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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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EZEKIEL CHAPTER 34 A reproof of the shepherds of Israel, EZEKIEL 34:1.
God's judgment against them, EZEKIEL 34:7. His providence over his
flock, EZEKIEL 34:11. The blessings of Christ's kingdom,...
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Ezekiel 34:1 word H1697 LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800)...
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‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, prophesy
against the shepherds of Israel, and say to them, even to the
shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the shepherds of Israel
who...
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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
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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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Ezekiel 34:1...
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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...