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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...
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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...
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AS. LIVE. Figure of speech _Deisis._ App-6.
SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle....
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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...
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_THEREFORE, YE SHEPHERDS, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD;_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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...
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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
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חַי ־אָ֜נִי נְאֻ֣ם ׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה
אִם ־לֹ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_No shepherd. Pastors who seek only their temporal advantage, (1
Timothy vi. 5., and Titus i. 7.; Haydock) are hirelings; and if they
teach false doctrine, they are wolves, John x. (Worthington)_...
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The Lord having by his servant the Prophet, preferred the charge of
the unworthiness of his servants, here pronounceth the sentence which
he will execute against them: and a tremendous one it is. And...
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_CARELESS SHEPHERDS_
‘My flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was
no shepherd.’
Ezekiel 34:8
I. I AM A SHEPHERD.—Whether I will or no, I am a shepherd; I cannot
avoid the s...
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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...
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AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD,.... It is an oath, and which he swore in
his wrath, being provoked with the shepherds for their
misadministration:
SURELY, BECAUSE MY FLOCK BECAME A PREY, AND MY FLOCK BECA...
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Ezekiel 34:8 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock
became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field,
because [there was] no shepherd, neither did my shepherds sea...
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As I live, saith the Lord God, the sovereign Ruler of the world,
SURELY BECAUSE MY FLOCK BECAME A PREY, AND MY FLOCK BECAME MEAT TO
EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD, as a result of the shepherds' neglect,
BEC...
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WOE UPON THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL...
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7-16 The Lord declared that he intended mercy towards the scattered
flock. Doubtless this, in the first place, had reference to the
restoration of the Jews. It also represented the good Shepherd's
te...
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See EZEKIEL 34:2,3,5,6. MY SHEPHERDS: government governors are by
God's appointment, and here he owns the careless, worst of rulers as
his shepherds....
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“Therefore you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh. As I live, says
the Lord Yahweh, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my
sheep became meat to all the beasts of the field, because there w...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 9:15; 2 Peter 2:13; Acts 20:33; Ezekiel 34:10;...
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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...