Ezekiel 34:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattleb and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. ”

Ezekiel 34:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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.
Ezekiel 34:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

cattle and cattle : i.e. between the sheep and the goats: rams being the sheep, while the he-goats are set in contrast.
Ezekiel 34:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. And as for you, O my flock - After having spoken to the shepherds,...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 peop...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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, thei...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 fi...
Ezekiel 34:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 a...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God's Care of His Flock; Prediction of Messiah's Kingdom. B. C. 587. 17 And as for y...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“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 past...
Ezekiel 34:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 34:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 34:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Ezekiel 34:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jehovah as Israel's true Shepherd
Ezekiel 34:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 20:37 ; Ezekiel 20:38 ; Ezekiel 34:20-22 ; Matthew 25:32 ; Matthew 25:33 ; Zechariah 10:3
Ezekiel 34:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 t...

Ezekiel 34:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 34:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 34:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezekiel 34:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 34:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 34:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 34:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 34:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 34:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ezekiel 34:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 34:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 34:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 34:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 34:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 34:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes