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Yahweh is the shepherd of His people. He will do all which the
shepherds should have done and did not. These promises - partially
fulfilled in the return from Babylon, and in the subsequent prosperity...
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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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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...
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I, EVEN I. Note the Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for
emphasis....
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_search my sheep_ i.e. search for, or, search out....
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Jehovah himself will undertake the care of his flock...
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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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For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my
sheep, and seek them out.
BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, WILL BOTH SEARCH MY SHEEP, AND SEEK THEM OUT -
doing that which the so-called sheph...
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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
v1
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BEHOLD, I, EVEN I. — The rich promises of the following verses are
all essentially contained in this, that Jehovah Himself will be the
Shepherd of His flock. It is the same assurance as that given by...
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כִּ֛י כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה
הִנְנִי ־
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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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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...
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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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FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Since the shepherds are so negligent,
careless, and cruel:
BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, WILL BOTH SEARCH MY SHEEP, AND SEEK THEM OUT; as he
did the Jews, in all countries where...
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, [even] I, will both search my
sheep, and seek them out.
Ver. 11. Behold, I, even I, _a_ will both search.] _Ego, ego reposcam
et anquiram._ Rather than the wor...
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_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...
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Jehovah as Israel's true Shepherd...
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For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, even I, will both search My
sheep and seek them out, giving them the solicitous attention which
their condition demanded and which their earthly rulers failed t...
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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...
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I, EVEN I: the construction is emphatical in the Hebrew and well
expressed here; I, the Owner, the Lover, the Maker, the great
Shepherd, even I, who committed them to your care, never submitted
them t...
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“Therefore you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says the
Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold I am against the shepherds, and I will require
my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the
sh...
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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, 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...
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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 34:11 God intervenes to reverse, step by
step, the process described above. He repairs the damage caused by the
failed shepherds (vv. Ezekiel 34:2,...
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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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Deuteronomy 32:39; Ezekiel 5:8; Ezekiel 6:3; Genesis 6:17; Hosea 5:14;...
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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...