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Ezekiel 34:23-28
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.
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.
Verse Ezekiel 34:23. _I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD - MY SERVANT DAVID_] DAVID, king of Israel, had been dead upwards of _four hundred years_; and from that time till now there never was a ruler of any...
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...
ONE SHEPHERD. one ruler. Compare Isaiah 40:11. Joh 10:11. MY SERVANT DAVID. Occurs only here, Ezekiel 34:24. Eze 37:24, 1 Kings 11:32;...
DISCOURSE: 1115 DAVID A TYPE OF CHRIST Ezekiel 34:23. _I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I t...
AND I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD— That is, Jesus Christ, the true shepherd, who has given himself this name both in the Prophets and in the Gospel; and who has perfectly fulfilled all the duties, the ch...
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 set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD OVER THEM - i:e., raise up by...
34:23 up (f-5) Or 'raise up,' as ver. 29; Isaiah 52:2 ; Isaiah 60:1 ; 'arise.'...
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
SET UP ONE SHEPHERD. — He is _one_ both with reference to the many evil rulers who have gone before (and this implies the perpetuity of His rule), and also with reference to the two kingdoms of Israel...
וַ הֲקִמֹתִ֨י עֲלֵיהֶ֜ם רֹעֶ֤ה אֶחָד֙ וְ רָעָ
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...
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant (k) David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. (k) Meaning Christ, of whom David was a figure, See...
_David; Christ, who is of the house of David. (Calmet) --- That king had been dead long before, so that no Jew or heretic can deny but that the Messias is here meant, as [in] chap. xxxvii. 24., &c. (W...
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 SET UP ONE SHEPHERD OVER THEM,.... Or governor, as the Targum; an excellent one of a thousand, the only one; in comparison of whom others are not to be named; for though there are under she...
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. Ver. 23. _And I will set up one shepherd._] Who, indeed,...
_And I will set up one Shepherd_ That is, the Messiah, “the true Shepherd, who hath given himself this name both in the prophets and in the gospel, and who hath perfectly fulfilled all the duties, the...
And I will set up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, a singular and preeminent one, the Messiah, who claims this honor for himself, John 10:14, EVEN MY SERVANT DAVID, the king who was oft...
THE MESSIAH AS THE TRUE SHEPHERD...
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 SET; advance, establish, and make great; thus I will appoint and set up. ONE SHEPHERD: formerly their many shepherds destroyed, as JEREMIAH 12:10; now this one shall save. Literally and histori...
Ezekiel 34:23 establish H6965 (H8689) one H259 shepherd H7462 (H8802) feed H7462 (H8804) servant H5650 David...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Even My servant David; he shall feed them._ THE DAVIDIC RULER The meaning cannot be that David would in person revive and reappear. It is more doubtful whether the prophet means that the line or fam...
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 34:23 Ezekiel’s announcement of a Davidic shepherd (v. Ezekiel 34:23; compare Ezekiel
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...
1 Peter 2:25; 1 Peter 5:4; Ecclesiastes 12:11; Ezekiel 37:24;...
One shepherd — Christ, the great good, chief, only shepherd, that laid down his life for his sheep. My servant David — The seed of David, the beloved one, who was typified by David, and is in other pl...