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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 34:3-4

“You eat the fat and you clothe yourselves with the wool. You kill the fatlings. But you do not feed the sheep. You have not strengthened the diseased, nor have you healed those who are sick, nor have you bound up what is broken, nor have you restored the ones who were driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost. But you have lorded it over them with force and with rigour.” The charge is expanded on, a failure to look after the sheep in their many needs, while themselves obtaining as... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 34:1-10

Ezekiel 34:1-2 Samuel : . 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 of Israel in the past, who are compared to shepherds— and the figure is maintained throughout the chapter— that have neglected or abused the flock. Governors should govern in the interests of the governed; but those “ shepherds” had used their power to feed themselves and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 34:4

The weak and languishing, ( such there are in the church and state,) with your hand, countenance, and counsel; so these metaphorical shepherds should as the other strengthen their sheep, with carrying them into good and quiet pastures. The sheep in our pastures are subject to many sicknesses, the sheep in church and state to more, and shepherds in both should be as physicians to heal them; but here these did not so. Sometimes violent and ravenous beasts break their bones, sometimes the stronger... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 34:1-31

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 encounters arises from the loss of civil government. The seeming loss, he contends, is a real gain, as the present government was so bad.”—Hengstenberg. Keil designates the turning against the bad shepherds as a foil for the ensuing promise.Ezekiel 34:2. “Woe to the shepherds.” The rulers who sought in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:1-31

Chapter 34Now in chapter 34, God speaks out against those faithless shepherds of Israel. Those men that were the spiritual leaders, those men to whom the people looked for spiritual guidance, who had left the real concept of the ministry. The Lord said to His disciples, "The heathen or the Gentiles do love to exercise lordship over each other, but it shall not be so among you. For whosoever would be chief among you, let him become the servant of all" ( Mark 10:42-44 ). You remember how when... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 34:1-31

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 magistrate, says Plato in his republic, should regard himself as sustaining the office of a shepherd, who makes the care of the flock his chief profession, and not as a man who goes to a feast to indulge in appetite, or to a market for gain. From Eusebius. See on Isaiah 56:11. Ezekiel 34:12 . As... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezekiel 34:1-10

Ezekiel 34:1-10Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? The unfaithful shepherdsI. Human rulers stand in the same relation to the people whom they rule as shepherds to their flocks. Therefore the qualifications required are similar.1. A special knowledge (Genesis 46:34). So to rule men successfully requires a knowledge of men. Christ is the preeminent Ruler of men, because He knows them--because He needs not that any should “testify of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 34:4

Eze 34:4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. Ver. 4. The diseased have ye not strengthened. ] Five sorts of sheep are here reckoned up that needed the shepherd’s best care and cure, but nothing was done; or, if anything, it was overdone, for with... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 34:4

diseased: Ezekiel 34:16, Isaiah 56:10, Jeremiah 8:22, Zechariah 11:15, Zechariah 11:16, Matthew 9:36, Hebrews 12:12 sought: Matthew 10:6, Matthew 18:12, Matthew 18:13, Luke 15:4-Joshua : but with: Exodus 1:13, Exodus 1:14, Jeremiah 22:13, Matthew 21:35, Matthew 24:49, 2 Corinthians 1:24, James 5:1-Joshua :, 1 Peter 5:2, 1 Peter 5:3, Revelation 13:14-Esther :, Revelation 17:5, Revelation 17:6 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 22:1 - Thou shalt 1 Kings 22:17 - as sheep Job 13:4 - physicians Jeremiah... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ezekiel 34:4

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.The diseased — The weak and languishing.Bound up — Oppressors in the state, or church, broke many then, but these shepherds bound them not up. read more