Ezekiel 34:16 - Exposition

I will destroy the fat and the strong . What follows introduces another feature into the parable, and is hardly less than an anticipation of the great scene of judgment in Matthew 25:32 . The "fat and the strong," as contrasted with the "broken" and the "sick," are, when we interpret the Darable, the noble and wealthy who, under the kings of Judah, had been allowed to work their evil will upon the people. Of these he says that he will feed them with (better, in) judgment , that for them there must be the discipline of punishment. They too are his sheep, but they require a different treatment from the others.