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Verse Ezekiel 34:3. _YE EAT THE FAT_] I think החלב _hacheleb_
should be translated _the milk_; and so most of the Versions
understand it. Or they lived on the _fat sheep_, and took the _wool_
of all....
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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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KILL. kill for sacrifice, and eating. Hebrew. _zaback_. App-48.
THEM THAT ARE FED. the fat ewe....
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_Ye eat the fat_ LXX. the _milk_(the consonants are the same). Cf.
Isaiah 7:22; Zechariah 11:16....
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THE FAT— _The milk._ Houbigant; with all the versions....
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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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Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that
are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
YE EAT THE FAT, [ hacheeleb (H2459)] - or, by differently pointing
the Hebrew, 'milk' [hachaal...
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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 The...
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אֶת ־הַ חֵ֤לֶב תֹּאכֵ֨לוּ֙ וְ אֶת ־הַ
צֶּ֣מֶר תִּלְבָּ֔שׁוּ הַ בְּרִיאָ֖ה
תִּזְבָּ֑חוּ הַ צֹּ֖אן...
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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 selfi...
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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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Ye eat the (b) fat, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool, ye kill
them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
(b) You seek to enrich yourselves by their conveniences and to spoil
their riches a...
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_Fat. Pastors often disguise the truth to flatter the rich, or the
more just souls are ruined by their negligence._...
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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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YE EAT THE FAT,.... The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic
versions, render it, "the milk"; the words for fat and milk differ
only in the points; and this was not unlawful, for
WHO FEEDETH A FLOCK...
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Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are
fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
Ver. 3. _Ye eat the fat._] _Ecce, lac et lanam recipitis._ This ye
might do, if in measure, fo...
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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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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 FAT; rather the milk, which insatiably and without measure you
devour; you exhaust their purses and weaken their estates by tributes,
exacted by extortions: so the temporal rulers and the spiritua...
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Ezekiel 34:3 eat H398 (H8799) fat H2459 clothe H3847 (H8799) wool
H6785 slaughter H2076 (H8799) fatlings H1277 feed H7462 (H8799) flock
H6629
eat - Isaiah 56:11-12; Zechariah 11:5,...
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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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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 encou...
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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 Kings 21:13; 2 Kings 21:16; Ezekiel 19:3; Ezekiel 19:6; Ezekiel
22:25; Ezekiel 33:25; Ezekiel 33:26; Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 1:15; Isai
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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...
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Ye kill — You contrive methods, to take first the life, and next the
estate of the well — fed, the rich and wealthy. But — You take
care to lead, protect, provide for, and watch over them....