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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....
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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....
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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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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...
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DESTROY: or, watch", reading (?. R) for (?. D))....
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Jehovah himself will undertake the care of his flock...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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34:16 judgment. (d-41) Or 'righteously.'...
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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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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....
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אֶת ־הָ אֹבֶ֤דֶת אֲבַקֵּשׁ֙ וְ אֶת ־הַ
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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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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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 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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 34:16 seek H1245 (H8762) lost H6 (H8802) back H7725 (H8686)
away H5080 (H8737) up...
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“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...
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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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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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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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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 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...
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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 34:11 God intervenes to reverse, step by
step, the process described above. He repairs the damage caused by the
failed shepherds (vv. Ezekiel 34:2,...
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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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Amos 4:1; Deuteronomy 32:15; Ezekiel 34:11; Ezekiel 34:4; Ezekiel 3
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The fat — The powerful and rich. I will feed — I will judge and
punish them....