“ Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; ”
Importance of Good Government. But besides moral excellence on the part of its citizens (Ezekiel 33) a state needs good government. This chapter is a very severe indictment of the rulers or kings o...
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Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
The Lord having by his servant the Prophet, preferred the charge of the unworthiness of his servants, here pronounceth the sentence which he will execute against them: and a tremendous one it is. And...
Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. This is repeated, that it might be observed, and for the confirmation of it; it might be depended upon that what follows would be accomplished,...
Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; Ver. 9. Therefore, O ye shepherds. ] See Ezekiel 34:7,8 .
The Shepherds Reproved. B. C. 587. 7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the L O...
No text from Poole on this verse.
“Therefore you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the s...
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 34:2 . 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...
Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? The unfaithful shepherds I. Human rulers stand in the same relation to the people whom they...
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...
Woe upon the Shepherds of Israel
Ezekiel 34:7
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...