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Text -- Ezekiel 34:18 (NET)

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34:18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet?
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: TEACH; TEACHER; TEACHING | Shepherd | Sheep | Selfishness | Minister | FOUL | Ezekiel, Book of | EZEKIEL, 2 | EZEKIEL, 1 | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Eze 34:18 - -- You great ones, eat the fat, and sweet; and what you cannot eat, you waste and spoil.

You great ones, eat the fat, and sweet; and what you cannot eat, you waste and spoil.

Wesley: Eze 34:18 - -- Which are sufficient for all.

Which are sufficient for all.

JFB: Eze 34:18-19 - -- Not content with appropriating to their own use the goods of others, they from mere wantonness spoiled what they did not use, so as to be of no use to...

Not content with appropriating to their own use the goods of others, they from mere wantonness spoiled what they did not use, so as to be of no use to the owners.

JFB: Eze 34:18-19 - -- That is, "limpid," as deep waters are generally clear. GROTIUS explains the image as referring to the usuries with which the rich ground the poor (Eze...

That is, "limpid," as deep waters are generally clear. GROTIUS explains the image as referring to the usuries with which the rich ground the poor (Eze 22:12; Isa 24:2).

Clarke: Eze 34:18 - -- Have eaten up the good pasture - Arrogate to yourselves all the promises of God, and will hardly permit the simple believer to claim or possess any ...

Have eaten up the good pasture - Arrogate to yourselves all the promises of God, and will hardly permit the simple believer to claim or possess any token of God’ s favor

Clarke: Eze 34:18 - -- Ye must foul the residue with your feet? - Ye abuse God’ s mercies; you consume much upon yourselves, and ye spoil more, on which the poor woul...

Ye must foul the residue with your feet? - Ye abuse God’ s mercies; you consume much upon yourselves, and ye spoil more, on which the poor would have been glad to feed. There are some who would rather give food to their sporting dogs than to the poor around them, who are ready to starve, and who would be glad of the crumbs that fall from the table of those masters!

TSK: Eze 34:18 - -- a small : Eze 16:20,Eze 16:47; Gen 30:15; Num 16:9, Num 16:13; 2Sa 7:19; Isa 7:13 to have : Eze 34:2, Eze 34:3; Mic 2:2, bread, Eze 32:2; Mat 15:6-9, ...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Poole: Eze 34:18 - -- God awakens them by this interrogatory to think first, and then speak what this is. When you are full fed, and others hungry and ready to starve, wh...

God awakens them by this interrogatory to think first, and then speak what this is. When you are full fed, and others hungry and ready to starve, who might live on that you leave if you did not spoil it, do you think such killing is no crime? Is it not a very great cruelty, and a most barbarous inhumanity? You great ones, who have much more than others, partly by the bounty of the Lord of the sheep, and partly by your injustice and rapine, you eat the fat and sweet, and what you cannot eat you waste and spoil; and what would you say, if your proud, fat, and spiteful servants in your houses should do so to their weaker, leaner, and modester servants?

The deep waters which are clear to the eye and pleasant, which are sweet to their palate, which are wholesome to the drinker.

Ye must foul the residue with your feet in spite as much as wantonness you stamp in them, raise all the mud from the bottom, that makes the waters unfit to be drunk: is this a trivial thing thus to starve and choke those you should feed and refresh? Such hath been the carriage of you rich, powerful, ruling, and governing part of my people, who have been forced either to live on what you made unwholesome and noxious, or to starve at home, or seek somewhat abroad; this hath destroyed many and dispersed more, but I will not always wink at and bear this.

Gill: Eze 34:18 - -- Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture,.... This is directed to the rams and he goats, to the people of power and wealth,...

Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture,.... This is directed to the rams and he goats, to the people of power and wealth, or who had the key of knowledge and instruction; who, by their conduct, showed as if it was not enough for them to eat and drink the best of things themselves, to enjoy their wealth and riches, and keep their posts of honour and profit, and the revenues of them, in church and state:

but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? but they must oppress the poor, by taking away from them that little they have; or by making their lives uncomfortable to them, by their severities and exactions; so that that small pittance they had, they cannot enjoy with any pleasure, The allusion is to beasts in pasture, which tread down and put dung what they do not eat, which makes what is left unfit for others; and to cattle, at ponds of water, which having drank, foul the rest with their feet; as camels particularly are said to do; so that others cannot drink after them, at least not so agreeably: this may be applied to the Scribes and Pharisees, and such as they were, who devoured widows' houses, and made void the word and commandments of God, by their traditions; teaching for doctrines the commandments of men; and so polluted the pure waters of the sanctuary; defiled the Scriptures of truth, and delivered out such doctrines as were not food and drink to the souls of men, and yet were obliged to receive them; and such are heretical persons, who sometimes arise out of the churches, are a part of the flock, that corrupt the word of God, pervert the Scriptures, and handle them deceitfully; and may be said to tread down and trample upon the wholesome truths of the Gospel, and to muddy the clear doctrines of grace; so that the children of God cannot, as they desire, have the pure, unmixed, sincere milk of the word.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

Geneva Bible: Eze 34:18 [Seemeth it] a small thing to you to have eaten up the good ( i ) pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? and to hav...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Eze 34:1-31 - --1 A reproof of the shepherds.7 God's judgment against them.11 His providence over his flock.20 The kingdom of Christ.

MHCC: Eze 34:17-31 - --The whole nation seemed to be the Lord's flock, yet they were very different characters; but he knew how to distinguish between them. By good pastures...

Matthew Henry: Eze 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, an...

Keil-Delitzsch: Eze 34:11-22 - -- Jehovah Himself will seek His flock, gather it together from the dispersion, lead it to good pasture, and sift it by the destruction of the bad shee...

Constable: Eze 33:1--48:35 - --IV. Future blessings for Israel chs. 33--48 "This last major division of the book focuses on the restoration of ...

Constable: Eze 33:21--40:1 - --B. Restoration to the Promised Land 33:21-39:29 "The concept of the land is particularly significant to ...

Constable: Eze 34:1-31 - --2. False and true shepherds ch. 34 Previously the Lord had said that the Israelites would not oc...

Constable: Eze 34:11-24 - --The Lord's intervention for Israel 34:11-24 34:11-12 The Lord further promised to search for His wandering sheep Himself, to care for them, and to del...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) The name Ezekiel means "(whom) God will strengthen" [GESENIUS]; or, "God will prevail" [ROSENMULLER]. His father was Buzi (Eze 1:3), a priest, and he ...

JFB: Ezekiel (Outline) EZEKIEL'S VISION BY THE CHEBAR. FOUR CHERUBIM AND WHEELS. (Eze. 1:1-28) EZEKIEL'S COMMISSION. (Eze 2:1-10) EZEKIEL EATS THE ROLL. IS COMMISSIONED TO ...

TSK: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) The character of Ezekiel, as a Writer and Poet, is thus admirably drawn by the masterly hand of Bishop Lowth: " Ezekiel is much inferior to Jeremiah ...

TSK: Ezekiel 34 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Eze 34:1, A reproof of the shepherds; Eze 34:7, God’s judgment against them; Eze 34:11, His providence over his flock; Eze 34:20, The k...

Poole: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL THE ARGUMENT EZEKIEL was by descent a priest, and by commission a prophet, and received it from heaven, as will appea...

Poole: Ezekiel 34 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 34 A reproof of the shepherds of Israel, Eze 34:1-6 . God’ s judgment against them, Eze 34:7-10 . His providence over his flock, Eze 3...

MHCC: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) Ezekiel was one of the priests; he was carried captive to Chaldea with Jehoiachin. All his prophecies appear to have been delivered in that country, a...

MHCC: Ezekiel 34 (Chapter Introduction) (Eze 34:1-6) The rulers reproved. (Eze 34:7-16) The people are to be restored to their own land. (Eze 34:17-31) The kingdom of Christ.

Matthew Henry: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel When we entered upon the writings of the prophets, which speak of the ...

Matthew Henry: Ezekiel 34 (Chapter Introduction) The iniquities and calamities of God's Israel had been largely and pathetically lamented before, in this book. Now in this chapter the shepherds of...

Constable: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and Writer The title of this book comes from its writer, Ezekiel, t...

Constable: Ezekiel (Outline) Outline I. Ezekiel's calling and commission chs. 1-3 A. The vision of God's glory ch. 1 ...

Constable: Ezekiel Ezekiel Bibliography Ackroyd, Peter R. Exile and Restoration. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968. ...

Haydock: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF EZECHIEL. INTRODUCTION. Ezechiel, whose name signifies the strength of God, was of the priestly race, and of the number of t...

Gill: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL This book is rightly placed after Jeremiah; since Ezekiel was among the captives in Chaldea, when prophesied; whereas Jerem...

Gill: Ezekiel 34 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 34 In the former chapter the prophet prophesies against the people of the Jews, both those of the captivity, and those who ...

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