That there might be no possible mistake made by the Church, from this preaching of the Prophet, he is directed in the close of his sermon to drop the figure, both of the shepherd and the sheep, and in plain terms to say, that the Church is all along meant by the flock; and the Lord God is the shepherd of his people.
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...
SHALL THEY KNOW. See note on Ezekiel 6:10. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "shall the nations know",...
am _with them_ LXX. omits _with them_, reading: that I the Lord am their God, and they … my people the usual antithesis. The people's consciousness of salvation shall be, so to speak, a double one, th...
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...
_THUS SHALL THEY KNOW THAT I THE LORD THEIR GOD AM WITH THEM, AND THAT THEY, EVEN THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, ARE MY PEOPLE, SAITH THE LORD GOD._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE....
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
וְ יָדְע֗וּ כִּ֣י אֲנִ֧י יְהוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם...
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...
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...
THUS SHALL THEY KNOW THAT I THE LORD THEIR GOD AM WITH THEM,.... Granting them his gracious and powerful presence, by all the above instances of his goodness and favour to them: AND THAT THEY, EVEN T...
_Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God [am] with them, and [that] they, [even] the house of Israel, [are] my people, saith the Lord GOD._ Ver. 30. _Thus shall they know that I the Lord their...
_And I will raise up for them a plant of renown_ The Messiah, the branch from the root of David, so frequently foretold by the prophet. _And they shall be no more consumed with hunger_ But shall be bl...
THE MESSIAH AS THE TRUE SHEPHERD...
Thus shall they know that I, the Lord, their God, am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, those who are Israelites in truth, by faith in the one Redeemer, ARE MY PEOPLE, SAITH THE LORD...
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...
THUS, by these many and great blessings I give them, SHALL THEY KNOW, the very heathen shall be convinced. THE LORD, who can do what I promise and my people expect. THEIR GOD, by covenant from their f...
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“And they will know that I, Yahweh their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel are my people, says the Lord Yahweh. And you my sheep, the sheep of my pasture are men, says the Lord Yah...
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...
_They, even the house of Israel, are My people._ ISRAEL’S PRIVILEGES I. The distinctive appellation here given to the persons addressed--“the house of Israel.” 1. They were a people closely connecte...
_Shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke._ THE YOKE REMOVED AND THE LORD REVEALED But do not all men know that God is the Lord? They should know it, for He is clearl...
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 34:25 The COVENANT OF PEACE announced in v. Ezekiel 34:25 extends to the renewal of the natural world. Compare...
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 16:62; Ezekiel 34:24; Ezekiel 37:27; Isaiah 8:10; Isaiah 8:9;
Their God — By covenant, from their forefathers. Am with them — Present with them, and reconciled to them....