Ezekiel 34:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD. ”

Ezekiel 34:31 - 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 34:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Ezekiel 34:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

flock. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version omitted these two words "flock, the". are . ye [are] men. Hebrew. adam , App-14. I: i.e. human beings, not "sheep", as spoken of in this chap...
Ezekiel 34:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD. And ye my flock - That is, under the allegory of a flock of sheep, I point out men; under that of a pas...
Ezekiel 34:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And ye, my flock, &c.— These words at the close of the chapter, explain the metaphor which runs through the whole: that which was said of a flock and its shepherd, is to be understood of men an...
Ezekiel 34:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD. Ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men - not merely an explanation of the image, as Jerome rep...
Ezekiel 34:31 - 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 34:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The flock of my pasture. — The chapter closes with the strongest and tenderest assurance that the object of its figurative language is to point out the renewed and close communion which is to come...
Ezekiel 34:31 - 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 34:31 - 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 34:31 - 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 34:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 i...
Ezekiel 34:31 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE STRAY SHEEP ‘And ye My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.’ Ezekiel 34:31 I. I have little doubt that when you read in this book of the sheph...
Ezekiel 34:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men ,.... This is observed, to show that all that had been said in this chapter concerning sheep, and a flock of sheep, was to be understood, not in a l...
Ezekiel 34:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, [are] men, [and] I [am] your God, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 31. And ye my flock … are men.] Sheep ye are, but rational sheep, having your spiritual "senses...
Ezekiel 34:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And ye my flock, &c., are men These words at the conclusion of the chapter, explain the metaphor which runs through the whole of it; namely, that what was said of a flock and its shepherds, is...
Ezekiel 34:31 - 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 34:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Now, that neither you nor any else mistake the allegory, note, saith God, this flock of my pasture are not sheep literally, but they are men expressed by this emblem, and these men are those I am a G...
Ezekiel 34:31 - 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 34:31 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 t...
Ezekiel 34:31 - 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 34:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 cl...
Ezekiel 34:31 - 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 34:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Messiah as the true Shepherd
Ezekiel 34:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 5:2 ; 1 Peter 5:3 ; Acts 20:28 ; Ezekiel 34:24 ; Ezekiel 36:38 ; Isaiah 40:11 ; John 10:11 ; John 10:16 ; John 10:26-30 ; John 20:15-17 ; Luke 12:32 ; Micah 7:14 ; Psalms 100:3 ;...

Ezekiel 34:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 34:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 34:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezekiel 34:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 34:31 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 34:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 34:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 34:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 34:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 34:31 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ezekiel 34:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 34:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 34:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 34:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 34:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge