Ezekiel 34:23-31

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 34:17-31

The prophet has no more to say to the shepherds, but he has now a message to deliver to the flock. God had ordered him to speak tenderly to them, and to assure them of the mercy he had in store for them. But here he is ordered to make a difference between some and others of them, to separate between the precious and the vile and then to give them a promise of the Messiah, by whom this distinction should be effectually made, partly at his first coming (for for judgment he came into this world,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:23

And I will set up one shepherd over them ,.... Or governor, as the Targum; an excellent one of a thousand, the only one; in comparison of whom others are not to be named; for though there are under shepherds, as magistrates and ministers of the word, he is the principal one; that is, Christ, called the good Shepherd, the great Shepherd, and the chief Shepherd, and the only one; and who became so by the constitution and appointment of Jehovah the Father; who chose him, called him, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:24

And I the Lord will be their God ,.... The God of them Christ is the shepherd of, and whom he feeds; the sheep and poor of the flock: this is the great blessing of the everlasting covenant, and than which there cannot be a greater, to have the Lord, the everlasting and unchangeable Jehovah, to be a covenant God and Father: and my servant David a Prince among them ; who should reside among them, dwell with them, by granting them his spiritual presence, and so rule over them, protect and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:25

And I will make with them a covenant of peace ,...., Such the covenant of grace is, made with Christ from everlasting; in which Jehovah proposed terms of peace, and which Christ undertook to answer, and became the peacemaker; and from this article concerning the peace and reconciliation of men the covenant is so called; see Isaiah 54:10 , this the Lord promises to make known to his people his flock, to show them their interest in it, and to make it good unto them; for otherwise it was made... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:26

And I will make them, and the places round about my hill, a blessing ,.... Alluding either to the city of Jerusalem, and the places adjacent; or to the temple, and the houses about it. So the Targum, "I will cause them to dwell round about the house of my sanctuary;' and so Kimchi interprets it of the temple. Some Christian interpreters, by the "hill" or mountain, understand Christ; and not amiss; who may be compared to one for height; he being higher than the kings of the earth, or than... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:27

And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit ,.... Such as are trees of righteousness, rooted in Christ, and planted in his church, and watered with his grace; these bring forth, bear, and are filled with the fruits of righteousness by him: and the earth shall yield her increase ; the fallow ground of men's hearts being broke up, and the seed of the word and of divine grace being sown in them, they bring forth fruit, some thirty, some sixty, and some an hundred fold; see Psalm 67:1 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:28

And they shall no more be a prey to the Heathen ,.... To the Papists, who shall now be perished out of the land, Psalm 10:16 , neither shall, the beasts of the land devour them ; neither that beast which rose up out of the sea, nor that which came up out of the earth, Revelation 13:1 , the pope, both in his secular and ecclesiastic power, being destroyed. So the Targum, "and the kingdoms of the earth shall not consume them;' the antichristian kingdoms: but they, shall dwell... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:29

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown ,.... Or, "for a name"; or, "of a name" F20 מטע לשם "plantato in nemen", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius; "plantam celebri nomine", Tigurine version; "plantam in nomen", Vatablus. ; a famous one: this is to be understood, not of the Jewish nation itself, as the Targum, "and I will raise up for them a plantation for standing;' or which shall continue; but of the Messiah, and not of his incarnation, when he sprung up as a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:30

Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them ,.... Granting them his gracious and powerful presence, by all the above instances of his goodness and favour to them: and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God : and not utterly cast off, as they seemed to be; the divine Shechinah now being returned to them, which had departed from them; the "loammi" that was written on them being now wiped off from them. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:31

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 literal sense, but in a figurative one, of such as were rational and spiritual persons; a set of men whom the Lord had chosen, and separated from others, as his peculiar flock; and whom he took a special care of, and led them to, and fed them in, green pastures of his own providing; they are the... read more

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