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Ezekiel 34:24

I the Lord … their God This is the goal towards which all movements strive; when this is reached perfection is attained and the covenant with its aims fully realized, cf. Ezekiel 37:27; Jeremiah 31:31; Exodus 29:45. The meaning of the words is very profound, implying closer fellowship and deeper feelings accompanying it than can well be expressed.

David a prince David is here called "prince"; in Ezekiel 37:22; Ezekiel 37:24 he is named "king" (though LXX. avoids the term). The term "prince" is common in Ezek., and does not imply a dignity inferior to that of royalty.

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See also Ezekiel 34:24 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 34:24. _I THE LORD WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND MY SERVANT DAVID A_ _PRINCE_] Here we find God and his Christ are _all in all_ in his Church, and Jesus is still PRINCE _among them_; and to hi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. PRINCE. a leader. Compare Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 55:4....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it. I THE LORD WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND MY SERVANT DAVID A PRINCE AMONG THEM - "my servant" implying...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֗ה אֶהְיֶ֤ה לָהֶם֙ לֵֽ אלֹהִ֔י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I THE LORD WILL BE THEIR GOD,.... The God of them Christ is the shepherd of, and whom he feeds; the sheep and poor of the flock: this is the great blessing of the everlasting covenant, and than wh...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken [it]. Ver. 24. _And I the Lord will be their God._] This is that beehive of heavenly honey we so oft...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MESSIAH AS THE TRUE SHEPHERD...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I, the Lord, will be their God, once more occupying this position over against them, AND MY SERVANT DAVID, the great Son of David, A PRINCE AMONG THEM, as a Ruler in the best sense of the word; I,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD; the glorious, gracious, eternal One. WILL BE THEIR GOD; I so put them into Christ's hand, that still I am and will be their God; yea, I will, through this my servant David, be their God. MY...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 34:24 LORD H3068 God H430 servant H5650 David H1732 prince H5387 among H8432 LORD H3068 spoken H1696 ...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 34:23 Ezekiel’s announcement of a Davidic shepherd (v. Ezekiel 34:23; compare Ezekiel

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:25; Acts 5:31; Ephesians 1:21; Ephesians 1:22;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    My servant — Christ was in this great work his fathers servant, Isaiah 42:1....

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