Ye eat the fat, taking the best part for themselves, and ye clothe you with the wool, in the sense in which the term "fleecing the flock" is used even in our days, ye kill them that are fed, the most excellent of the flock; but ye feed not the flock. The action of the rulers was thus to be condemned as in every way opposed to the attitude which might justly be expected of men of their position.
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....
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...
KILL. kill for sacrifice, and eating. Hebrew. _zaback_. App-48. THEM THAT ARE FED. the fat ewe....
_Ye eat the fat_ LXX. the _milk_(the consonants are the same). Cf. Isaiah 7:22; Zechariah 11:16....
THE FAT— _The milk._ Houbigant; with all the versions....
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...
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...
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
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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...
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...
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...
_Fat. Pastors often disguise the truth to flatter the rich, or the more just souls are ruined by their negligence._...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 34:3 eat H398 (H8799) fat H2459 clothe H3847 (H8799) wool H6785 slaughter H2076 (H8799) fatlings...
“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...
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 21:13; 2 Kings 21:16; Ezekiel 19:3; Ezekiel 19:6; Eze
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...
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....