And I will make them and the places round about My hill a blessing, literally, "I give them [the people of God] and the environments of My hill as a blessing"; for this is the function of the Church of God in all its congregations, the visible exponents of the invisible communion of saints; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season, there shall be showers of blessing, namely, through the Gospel-message proclaimed in the Church.
Verse Ezekiel 34:26. _THE SHOWER TO COME DOWN_] The Holy Spirit's influence. _THERE SHALL BE SHOWERS OF BLESSING._] Light, life, joy, peace, and power shall be manifest in all the _assemblies of Chri...
Yahweh having promised to be a Ruler of His people, the administration of the divine kingdom is now described, as carried on by One King, the representative of David, whose dominion should fulfill all...
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...
In the coming days, while Yahweh will indeed be chief Shepherd, there will still be an earthly shepherd, to correspond to the old order of evil shepherds: in plain words, the monarchy will continue, b...
Instead of the many worthless shepherds of old there shall in the future be one good shepherd, even David, and Jehovah shall in truth be God of Israel....
_make them … a blessing_ i.e. altogether blessed, Genesis 12:2; Isaiah 19:24, as the last words of the verse imply. Cf. construction Ezekiel 16:38; Ez
C. The Future Shepherd 34:23-31 TRANSLATION (23) And I will raise up over them one shepherd, and he shall feed them, even My servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. (24) An...
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. I WILL MAKE THEM AND THE PLACES ROUND...
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
BOUND ABOUT MY HILL. — “My hill” is Zion. (Comp. the similar figurative language in Isaiah 31:4.) The centre of the old theocracy is always spoken of in Scripture as also the centre from which goes fo...
וְ נָתַתִּ֥י אֹותָ֛ם וּ סְבִיבֹ֥ות גִּבְעָתִ֖י...
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...
“SHOWERS OF BLESSING” Ezekiel 34:17-31 Though God now often seems to make no difference between the oppressors and the oppressed, the time is fast coming when He will make momentous and lasting dist...
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...
_Make. Literally, "place." (Haydock) --- Septuagint read not a blessing, which seems superfluous. (Calmet) --- Yet Chaldean has it, and the idea is more complete. (Haydock)_...
Here we have, in the midst of many gracious promises, the Lord's address to the flock itself. As in the circumstances of life, in a wilderness state, even the flock of Jesus, like the flock of the fie...
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 I WILL MAKE THEM, AND THE PLACES ROUND ABOUT MY HILL, A BLESSING,.... Alluding either to the city of Jerusalem, and the places adjacent; or to the temple, and the houses about it. So the Targum,...
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. Ver. 26. _And I will make them a blessi...
_I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing_ I will there give remarkable instances of my favour, and of the happiness which flows from it. God's hill is the same with his _holy mo...
17-31 The whole nation seemed to be the Lord's flock, yet they were very different characters; but he knew how to distinguish between them. By good pastures and deep waters, are meant the pure word o...
I WILL MAKE THEM, my returned captives, who were looked upon as cursed, reproached, and hated. THE PLACES ROUND ABOUT; all the country. MY HILL; Jerusalem, or the temple, Zion, which is called holy hi...
Ezekiel 34:26 make H5414 (H8804) around H5439 hill H1389 blessing H1293 showers H1653 down H3381 (H8689) season...
“And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. And I will make them and the...
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...
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...
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...
_I will make with them a covenant of peace._ GOD’S COVENANT WITH HIS PEOPLE, AND THEIR ASSURED SAFETY IN THE WILDERNESS I. The King’s charter. Observe, the text does not say, “We will make a covenan...
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 34:17 The remainder of the chapter is addressed to the flock: vv. Ezekiel 34:17 condemn victimization within the flock; vv....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 34:25 The COVENANT OF PEACE announced in v. Ezekiel 34:25 extends to the renewal of the natural world. Compare...
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...
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....
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...
Deuteronomy 28:12; Ezekiel 20:40; Genesis 12:2; Isaiah 19:24; Isai
Them — My returned captives, The places — All the country. My hill — Jerusalem....