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Verse Ezekiel 34:5. _AND THEY WERE SCATTERED_] There was no
discipline kept up; and the flock, the Church, became disorganized,
and separated from each other, both in affection and fellowship. And
th...
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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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BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHEPHERD: or, without. shepherd....
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The allegory is simple enough. Owing to the evil and selfish
government of the rulers the people became the prey of all the nations
round about them. The figure of the flock indicates, however, the
af...
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BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHEPHERD— _For want of a shepherd._...
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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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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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THEY WERE SCATTERED, BECAUSE.... — The calamities of the people are
attributed to the fault of the rulers, not because the people
themselves were free from sin — the contrary has already been
abundant...
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וַ תְּפוּצֶ֖ינָה מִ בְּלִ֣י רֹעֶ֑ה וַ
תִּהְיֶ
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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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And they were scattered, because [there is] no shepherd: and they (d)
became food to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
(d) For lack of good government and doctrine they perished....
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_Field. The people being neglected, followed false prophets and idols.
Their teachers were so far from striving to reclaim them, that they
perhaps shewed them the example. (Calmet)_...
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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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AND THEY WERE SCATTERED BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHEPHERD,.... No good one;
there were shepherds, but they were idol shepherds, good for nothing,
and it was all one as if there were none: so, in Christ's t...
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And they were scattered, because [there is] no shepherd: and they
became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
Ver. 5. _And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd....
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_And they were scattered_, &c. Driven into other parts of the land, or
into other countries, by the severity, exactions, and oppressions of
their rulers. _Because there is no shepherd_ No one worthy o...
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And they were scattered because there is no shepherd, none who really
performed the true ruler's function in keeping his subjects together
in peace and safety; AND THEY BECAME MEAT TO ALL THE BEASTS O...
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WOE UPON THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL...
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BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHEPHERD:
Or, without a shepherd, and so verse 8...
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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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THEY, my neglected sheep, were scattered, by the inroads and invasions
of their enemies, that broke in like devouring beasts. NO SHEPHERD; no
vigilant, faithful, good shepherd that loved the flock, an...
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Ezekiel 34:5 scattered H6327 (H8799) shepherd H7462 (H8802) food H402
beasts H2416 field H7704 scattered H6327 ...
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“And they were scattered because there was no shepherd. And they
became meat to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.”
This has definite reference to the past. They had had no true and
wort...
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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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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 34:2 Describing rulers as SHEPHERDS was
widespread in the ancient Near East. David is the model of a
shepherd-king (2 Samuel 5:2;...
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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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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 22:17; 2 Chronicles 18:16; Acts 20:29; Ezekiel 33:21;...
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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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No shepherd — No vigilant, faithful shepherd. Became meat — Were
made a prey of, and devoured by all their neighbours....