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Verse Ezekiel 34:18. _HAVE EATEN UP THE GOOD PASTURE_] Arrogate to
yourselves all the promises of God, and will hardly permit the simple
believer to claim or possess any token of God's favour.
_YE M...
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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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The words are addressed to the rams and he-goats the magnates and
ruling classes.
_deep waters_ CLEAR (lit. settled) waters, cf. Ezekiel 32:14....
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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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Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture,
but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures?
and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the res...
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34:18 settled (e-35) Or 'deep.' see ch. 32.14....
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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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TREAD DOWN... FOUL THE RESIDUE. — The charge against them is that
they not only first supplied and took care of themselves, but with
careless insolence destroyed what should have been for others....
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הַ מְעַ֣ט מִכֶּ֗ם הַ מִּרְעֶ֤ה הַ
טֹּוב֙
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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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[Seemeth it] a small thing to you to have eaten up the good (i)
pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the rest of your
pastures? and to have drank of the deep waters, but ye must foul the
res...
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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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SEEMETH IT A SMALL THING UNTO YOU TO HAVE EATEN UP THE GOOD
PASTURE,.... This is directed to the rams and he goats, to the people
of power and wealth, or who had the key of knowledge and instruction;...
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Ezekiel 34:18 [Seemeth it] a small thing unto you to have eaten up the
good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of
your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye mu...
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Ezekiel 34:17 ; EZEKIEL 34:19. _ As for you, O my flock_ The prophet,
having finished what he had to say to the shepherds, now delivers
God's message to the flock. God had before ordered him to speak...
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Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture,
as the rich and powerful did in oppressing the poor, BUT YE MUST TREAD
DOWN WITH YOUR FEET THE RESIDUE OF YOUR PASTURES? thereby pr...
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Jehovah as Israel's true Shepherd...
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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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God awakens them by this interrogatory to think first, and then speak
what this is. When you are full fed, and others hungry and ready to
starve, who might live on that you leave if you did not spoil...
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Ezekiel 34:18 little H4592 up H7462 (H8799) good H2896 pasture H4829
down H7429 (H8799) feet H7272 residue...
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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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_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 34:17 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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2 Samuel 7:19; Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 32:2; Ezekiel 3
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But ye must tread down — You great ones, eat the fat, and sweet; and
what you cannot eat, you waste and spoil. The deep waters — Which
are sufficient for all....