George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 34:5
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)
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)
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...
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...
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...
BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHEPHERD: or, without. shepherd....
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...
BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHEPHERD— _For want of a shepherd._...
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...
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. THEY WERE SCATTERED, BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHEPHERD - i:e., none...
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...
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
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...
וַ תְּפוּצֶ֖ינָה מִ בְּלִ֣י רֹעֶ֑ה וַ תִּהְיֶ
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
_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...
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...
WOE UPON THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL...
BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHEPHERD: Or, without a shepherd, and so verse 8...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 34:5 scattered H6327 (H8799) shepherd H7462 (H8802) food H402 beasts H2416 field H7704 scattered H6327 ...
“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...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 22:17; 2 Chronicles 18:16; Acts 20:29; Ezekiel 33:21;...
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...
No shepherd — No vigilant, faithful shepherd. Became meat — Were made a prey of, and devoured by all their neighbours....