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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 34:16

The fat and the strong. — While fatness is in general an emblem of prosperity, it is frequently used in Scripture, as here, for that prosperity which begets hardness of heart and forgetfulness of God. (See Deuteronomy 32:15; Acts 28:27, &c.)

With judgment. — This does not mean, as the ambiguous sense of the English word might make it possible to suppose, with wisdom, but with righteousness and authority, as is plainly seen from the connection with the following verses.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 34:16. _I WILL DESTROY THE FAT AND THE STRONG_] I will destroy those cruel and imperious shepherds who abuse their authority, and tyrannize over the flock....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WITH JUDGMENT - It is characteristic of Yahweh as a shepherd that He judges between sheep and sheep, rejecting the proud and accepting the penitent and broken-hearted....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DESTROY: or, watch", reading (?. R) for (?. D))....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah himself will undertake the care of his flock...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Lord's treatment of his flock will be in all things the reverse of the treatment given them by the evil shepherds. _with judgment_ i.e. just judgment; _in rectitude and justice_. Cf. such demands...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1114 CHRIST’S EXECUTION OF HIS PASTORAL OFFICE Ezekiel 34:16. _I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT I WILL DESTROY, &C.— Houbigant, after many of the versions, reads, _I will preserve the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment:_ but the following verses, wherein a discrimination is made b...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    34:16 judgment. (d-41) Or 'righteously.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶת ־הָ אֹבֶ֤דֶת אֲבַקֵּשׁ֙ וְ אֶת ־הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the (g) s...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Preserve, (Septuagint, Syriac) which seems more natural than Hebrew and Chaldean, "destroy." I will not eat them, like bad shepherds, ver. 3. (Calmet) --- God and those whom he sends, will take care...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL SEEK THAT WHICH WAS LOST,.... As all men are in Adam, and through his fall, and by their own actual transgressions; and so the elect of God among the rest; who are lost not with respect to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the stron...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jehovah as Israel's true Shepherd...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will, by way of contrast to the selfish behavior of the false shepherds, SEEK THAT WHICH WAS LOST, AND BRING AGAIN THAT WHICH WAS DRIVEN AWAY, AND WILL BIND UP THAT WHICH WAS BROKEN, crippled by som...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    In the former part of the 16th verse, God promiseth to his people that he will do all the offices of a good, watchful, tender, and faithful shepherd, which those shepherds did neglect. See also EZEKIE...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 34:16 seek H1245 (H8762) lost H6 (H8802) back H7725 (H8686) away H5080 (H8737) up...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep who are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep. And I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away._ THE GOOD SHEPHERD In reading this verse hastily we are apt to overlook the new and very interesting idea introduced in...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 4:1; Deuteronomy 32:15; Ezekiel 34:11; Ezekiel 34:4; Ezekiel 3

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The fat — The powerful and rich. I will feed — I will judge and punish them....

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