“ I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. ”
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 brin...
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, 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 certain...
THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM Ezekiel 34:1-31 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 equiva...
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...
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 th...
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...
I will feed my flock ,.... This is repeated for the further confirmation of it, that it might be depended upon that the Lord would feed his people in the manner before promised; and it gives a reaso...
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 15. I will feed my flock. ] Doing all the offices of a good shepherd for them, and charging mine undershepherds to...
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...
The Shepherds Reproved. B. C. 587. 7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the L O...
No text from Poole on this verse.
“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 scattere...
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...
Ezekiel 34:11-12 . 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 s...
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 mag...
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 th...
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...
Jehovah as Israel's true Shepherd
Hosea 2:18 ; Isaiah 11:6 ; Isaiah 11:7 ; Isaiah 27:10 ; Isaiah 65:10 ; Isaiah 65:9 ; Jeremiah 3:15 ; John 21:15 ; Psalms 23:2 ; Song of Solomon 1:7 ; Song of Solomon 1:8 ; Zephaniah 3:13...
A Prophecy against the Shepherds Ezekiel 34:1-15 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 shee...