Ezekiel 34:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. ”

Ezekiel 34:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Ezekiel 34:20 - 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 34:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. I will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle - Betw...
Ezekiel 34:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between...
Ezekiel 34:20 - 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 34:20 - 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 34:20 - 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 34:20 - 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 34:20 - 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 34:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them ,.... To the rams and he goats of the flock, that use the pastures and defile the waters after this manner, and make them unfit for the lesser cattle; or...
Ezekiel 34:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, [even] I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. Ver. 20. I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle. ] These are,...
Ezekiel 34:20 - 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 34:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I, even I: see Ezekiel 34:11,17 . I am judge by office and I will vindicate and right the poor by judgment. The fat cattle; the rich, voluptuous, and wanton ones. The lean cattle; the poor a...
Ezekiel 34:20 - 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 34:20 - 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 34:20 - 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 34:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 m...
Ezekiel 34:20 - 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 34:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jehovah as Israel's true Shepherd
Ezekiel 34:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 34:10 ; Ezekiel 34:17 ; Matthew 25:31-46 ; Psalms 22:12-16
Ezekiel 34:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I will judge — I will vindicate the poor. The fat cattle — The rich. The lean — The poor.

Ezekiel 34:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 34:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 34:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezekiel 34:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 34:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 34:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 34:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 34:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 34:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 34:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 34:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ezekiel 34:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 34:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 34:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 34:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 34:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 34:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes