As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep [that are] scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in (f) the cloudy and dark day.
(f) In the day of their affliction and misery: and this promise is to comfort the Church in all dangers.
Verse Ezekiel 34:12. _CLOUDY AND DARK DAY._] Times of general distress and persecution; in such times the shepherd should be especially watchful....
THE CLOUDY AND DARK DAY - Contrasted with the day in which the Lord will be among them like a shepherd to gather them together again....
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...
Therefore these evil shepherds must be replaced by none other than Yahweh Himself, the great Shepherd of the sheep, who will lovingly tend them, and seek them out on the dark and cloudy day, and bring...
IN THE DAY. See App-18....
Jehovah himself will undertake the care of his flock...
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...
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in th...
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
כְּ בַקָּרַת֩ רֹעֶ֨ה עֶדְרֹ֜ו בְּ יֹום ־הֱיֹו
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...
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...
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...
_Day, in persecution. I will count my sheep, lest any be lost._...
What a sweet relief doth this part of the Chapter afford, after beholding what went before, in the unfaithfulness of false shepherds, to hear what is promised to the true. Reader! you will not, I am s...
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...
AS A SHEPHERD SEEKETH OUT HIS FLOCK IN THE DAY THAT HE IS AMONG HIS SHEEP THAT ARE SCATTERED,.... That is, when they have been scattered, and are got together again; then he goes among them, to see if...
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep [that are] scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in t...
_Behold, I, even I, will search my sheep_ I myself will recall them from their wanderings into the right way; _and will seek them out_ Hebrew, בקדתים, _I will seek them early_, or, _seek them in the m...
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock, inspecting them with careful solicitude, IN THE DAY THAT HE IS AMONG HIS SHEEP THAT ARE SCATTERED, earnestly concerned about ways and means to bring them together...
Jehovah as Israel's true Shepherd...
AS...SEEKETH: _ Heb._ according to the seeking...
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...
As a shepherd doth gently gather them together, counteth them, brings them to the fold, views what they have suffered, whether lame or torn, and binds up, and healeth; if any are wanting, he looks til...
Ezekiel 34:12 shepherd H7462 (H8802) out H1243 flock H5739 day H3117 among H8432 scattered H6567 (H8737) sheep...
“As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep who are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep. And I will deliver them out of all places where they have been 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...
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...
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 34:11 God intervenes to reverse, step by step, the process described above. He repairs the damage caused by the failed shepherds (vv. Ezekiel 34:2,...
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 Samuel 17:34; 1 Samuel 17:35; Acts 2:19; Amos 5:18; Ezekiel 30:3;...
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...
In the cloudy and dark day — In the time of general distress....