Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Ezekiel 34:17
cattle and cattle: i.e. between the sheep and the goats: rams being the sheep, while the he-goats are set in contrast.
cattle and cattle: i.e. between the sheep and the goats: rams being the sheep, while the he-goats are set in contrast.
Verse Ezekiel 34:17. _AND_ AS FOR _YOU, O MY FLOCK_] After having spoken to the _shepherds_, he now addresses the _flock_. _I JUDGE BETWEEN CATTLE AND CATTLE_] Between _false_ and _true_ professors;...
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....
Not only shall the cruel shepherds be removed and the flock delivered out of their hands and fed by the Lord himself, the injuries inflicted by members of the flock on each other shall no more prevail...
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...
And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. AS FOR YOU, O MY FLOCK - passing from the rulers to the people....
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
BETWEEN CATTLE AND CATTLE. — In other words, _between one and another of the flock._ They are not all alike to be saved and blessed, but only those who turn in penitence and submission to God, their S...
וְ אַתֵּ֣נָה צֹאנִ֔י כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְ
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...
_Cattle. The crimes of the pastors do not excuse the flock. In it there are people of different dispositions. The rich often destroy, and these are brought to an account, ver. 24. (Calmet)_...
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 AS FOR YOU, O MY FLOCK, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Having done with the shepherds, and the complaint against them, the Lord proceeds to take notice of the flock, or the people themselves, and th...
And [as for] you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. Ver. 17. _And as for you, O my flock._] I have a saying to you als...
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...
And as for you, O My flock, thus saith the Lord God, in announcing His policy over against the entire nation, BEHOLD, I JUDGE BETWEEN CATTLE AND CATTLE, literally, "between sheep and sheep," or the sm...
CATTLE: _ Heb._ small cattle of lambs and kids HE GOATS: _ Heb._ great he goats...
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 JUDGE BETWEEN CATTLE AND CATTLE; make a different estimate and judgment between men and men, between the smaller and weaker that need more tenderness, and the greater and stronger whose violence is...
Ezekiel 34:17 you H859 flock H6629 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 judge H8199 (H8802) sheep...
“But as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold I will judge between cattle and cattle, as well the rams as the he-goats. Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pastu...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
Ezekiel 20:37; Ezekiel 20:38; Ezekiel 34:20; Matthew 25:32;...
I judge — Between men and men, between the smaller and weaker, and the greater and stronger, as their different state requires I will do. The rams — Rulers, who also shalt be dealt with according to t...