Ezequiel 34:2

Filipino Cebuano Bible

2 Anak sa tawo, panagna batok sa mga magbalantay sa mga carnero sa Israel, panagna, ug umingon ka kanila, bisan sa mga magbalantay sa mga carnero: Mao kini ang giingon sa Ginoong Jehova: Alaut ang mga magbalantay sa mga carnero nga nagapasibsib hinoon sa ilang kaugalingon! dili ba ang mga magbalantay sa mga carnero magapasibsib sa mga carnero?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the shepherds: The shepherds of Israel, signify their kings and princes, priests and prophets; the flock, the whole of the people; the fat and wool, the tithes and offerings, taxes and imposts: these they exacted with great rigour, and even oppressed and destroyed the people to enrich themselves; but they bestowed no pains to provide for the welfare of the state, or for the souls of those entrusted to them. They knew nothing about their flock: it might be diseased, infirm, bruised, maimed, strayed, or lost, for they watched not over them. Ezekiel 33:24, Jeremiah 2:8, Jeremiah 3:15, Jeremiah 10:21, Jeremiah 12:10, John 10:1, John 10:2, John 10:12

Woe: Ezekiel 34:8-10, Ezekiel 13:19, Jeremiah 23:1, Micah 3:1-3, Micah 3:11, Micah 3:12, Zephaniah 3:3, Zephaniah 3:4, Zechariah 11:17, Matthew 24:48-51, Luke 12:42-46, Luke 20:46, Luke 20:47, Romans 16:18, 2 Peter 2:3

feed: 2 Samuel 5:2, Psalms 78:71, Psalms 78:72, Isaiah 40:11, John 21:15-17, Acts 20:26, Acts 20:29, 1 Peter 5:2-4

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:38 - the rams 1 Samuel 2:29 - make 2 Samuel 7:7 - feed 2 Samuel 24:17 - these sheep 1 Chronicles 17:6 - feed Isaiah 56:11 - they are Jeremiah 22:22 - thy pastors Ezekiel 13:3 - Woe Ezekiel 34:10 - neither shall Ezekiel 34:18 - to have Zechariah 10:3 - anger Zechariah 11:5 - possessors Zechariah 11:16 - which Matthew 24:45 - to give Luke 10:2 - are John 10:8 - came John 10:10 - thief

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,.... Or, "concerning" p them; the governors of them, as the Targum and Jarchi; their political governors, their kings, princes, and civil magistrates of every order and degree; so Kimchi interprets it of kings; and it was common with the eastern nations, and with the Greeks, to call kings shepherds; and one and the same word; in the Greek language, signifies to feed sheep, and to govern people; see Psalms 78:72, also their ecclesiastical governors are intended, prophets, priests, Levites, scribes, and Pharisees; these were bad shepherds, or they would not have been prophesied against; and though they were shepherds of Israel, this must be done:

prophesy, and say unto them, thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds: that the message to them might be the more regarded, it is ordered to be delivered in the name of the Lord; otherwise they would have been apt to have despised it, and charged the prophet with impertinence and rudeness:

woe be to the shepherds of Israel, that do feed themselves! that is, themselves only, and not the flock: had they fed the flock, as well as themselves, they would not have been blamed; but they took no care of the people over whom they were set only minded their own affairs, to get riches and honour, but neglected the good of the people, yea, cruelly oppressed them:

should not the shepherds feed the flocks? undoubtedly they should; it is their duty, the business of their office, so to do; kings to rule over their subjects, defend their persons and property, and secure their privileges and liberties to them; and ecclesiastical rulers, ministers of the word, should feed the flock or church of God committed to them with knowledge and understanding; see Jeremiah 3:15.

p על רועי "de pastoribus", V. L. Grotius; "super pastores", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shepherds - Not priests or prophets, but rulers and kings (see the Jeremiah 2:8 note). The most ancient title for “ruler” is a monogram which occurs on the oldest monuments discovered in the cuneiform character. In the Assyrian language it became riu (compare Hebrew רעה râ‛âh =shepherd). In the traditions of Berosus we find that Alorus, the first king in the world, received from the Divinity the title of Shepherd. The title, as well as the monogram, was preserved to the latest times of the Assyrian monarchy. While the distress and misery of the people daily in creased, the last kings of Judah exacted more and more from their subjects and lavished more and more on personal luxury and show.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 34:2. Prophesy against the shepherds of Israel — The shepherds include, first, the priests and Levites; secondly, the kings, princes, and magistrates. The flock means the whole of the people. The fat and the wool, the tithes and offerings, the taxes and imposts. The reprehensible feeding and clothing with these, as to the priests and Levites, the using these tithes and offerings, not to enable them the better to fulfil the work of the ministry, but to pamper their own bodies, and support them in an idle voluptuous life; and in reference to the state, the employing the taxes and imposts, not for the support and administration of justice and good government, but to subsidize heathen powers, and maintain their own luxury and idolatrous prodigality.