Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 34:18
But ye must tread down — You great ones, eat the fat, and sweet; and what you cannot eat, you waste and spoil. The deep waters — Which are sufficient for all.
But ye must tread down — You great ones, eat the fat, and sweet; and what you cannot eat, you waste and spoil. The deep waters — Which are sufficient for all.
Verse Ezekiel 34:18. _HAVE EATEN UP THE GOOD PASTURE_] Arrogate to yourselves all the promises of God, and will hardly permit the simple believer to claim or possess any token of God's favour. _YE M...
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...
But among the flock there were differences too, the strong (_i.e._ the rich) treating the weak with selfishness and brutality. This too will end....
SEEMETH IT: or, supply "Is it". YOU: i.e. ye goats. The verse goes on to describe the evil work of the goats in fouling the pastures of the sheep. There is. solemn application of this to the churches...
The words are addressed to the rams and he-goats the magnates and ruling classes. _deep waters_ CLEAR (lit. settled) waters, cf. Ezekiel 32:14....
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...
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the res...
34:18 settled (e-35) Or 'deep.' see ch. 32.14....
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
TREAD DOWN... FOUL THE RESIDUE. — The charge against them is that they not only first supplied and took care of themselves, but with careless insolence destroyed what should have been for others....
הַ מְעַ֣ט מִכֶּ֗ם הַ מִּרְעֶ֤ה הַ טֹּוב֙
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...
[Seemeth it] a small thing to you to have eaten up the good (i) pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? and to have drank of the deep waters, but ye must foul the res...
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...
SEEMETH IT A SMALL THING UNTO YOU TO HAVE EATEN UP THE GOOD PASTURE,.... This is directed to the rams and he goats, to the people of power and wealth, or who had the key of knowledge and instruction;...
Ezekiel 34:18 [Seemeth it] a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye mu...
Ezekiel 34:17 ; EZEKIEL 34:19. _ As for you, O my flock_ The prophet, having finished what he had to say to the shepherds, now delivers God's message to the flock. God had before ordered him to speak...
Jehovah as Israel's true Shepherd...
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, as the rich and powerful did in oppressing the poor, BUT YE MUST TREAD DOWN WITH YOUR FEET THE RESIDUE OF YOUR PASTURES? thereby pr...
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...
God awakens them by this interrogatory to think first, and then speak what this is. When you are full fed, and others hungry and ready to starve, who might live on that you leave if you did not spoil...
Ezekiel 34:18 little H4592 up H7462 (H8799) good H2896 pasture H4829 down H7429 (H8799) feet H7272 residue...
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...
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...
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, 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...
_I judge between cattle and cattle._ SELFISH SCRAMBLE AND CHRISTIAN SERVICE It presents to us the scene, far too often enacted in human life, of a selfish scramble--a scramble for position, for mone...
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....
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...
2 Samuel 7:19; Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 32:2; Ezekiel 3