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By covenant, from their forefathers.

Present with them, and reconciled to them.
JFB -> Eze 34:31
JFB: Eze 34:31 - -- Not merely an explanation of the image, as JEROME represents. But as God had promised many things which mere "men" could not expect to realize, He sho...
Not merely an explanation of the image, as JEROME represents. But as God had promised many things which mere "men" could not expect to realize, He shows that it is not from man's might their realization is to be looked for, but from GOD, who would perform them for His covenant-people, "His flock" [ROSENMULLER]. When we realize most our weakness and God's power and faithfulness to His covenant, we are in the fittest state for receiving His blessings.
Another feature of Israel's prosperity; those who exulted over Israel's humiliation, shall themselves be a "prey." Already stated in Eze 25:12-14; properly repeated here in full detail, as a commentary on Eze 34:28. The Israelites "shall be no more a prey"; but Edom, the type of their most bitter foes, shall be destroyed irrecoverably.
Clarke -> Eze 34:31
Clarke: Eze 34:31 - -- And ye my flock - That is, under the allegory of a flock of sheep, I point out men; under that of a pasture, my Church, and under that of a shepherd...
And ye my flock - That is, under the allegory of a flock of sheep, I point out men; under that of a pasture, my Church, and under that of a shepherd, the Messiah, through whom I am become your God. And he who is your God is

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Barnes -> Eze 34:20-31
Barnes: Eze 34:20-31 - -- Yahweh having promised to be a Ruler of His people, the administration of the divine kingdom is now described, as carried on by One King, the repres...
Yahweh having promised to be a Ruler of His people, the administration of the divine kingdom is now described, as carried on by One King, the representative of David, whose dominion should fulfill all the promises originally made to the man after God’ s own heart. Ezekiel does not so much add to, as explain and develope, the original promise; and as the complete fulfillment of the spiritual blessings, which the prophets were guided to proclaim, was manifestly never realized in any temporal prosperity of the Jews, and never could and never can be realized in any earthly kingdom, we recognize throughout the Sacred Volume the one subject of all prophecy - the Righteous King, the Anointed Prince, the Son and the Lord of David.
One shepherd - One, as ruling over an undivided people, the distinction between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah having been done away.
My servant David - David was a fit type of the True King because he was a true and faithful servant of Yahweh. That which David was partially and imperfectly, Christ is in full perfection (compare Mat 12:18; Joh 5:30; Heb 10:7.)
The blessings here foretold are especially those of the old covenant. The wilderness (or, pasture-country) and the woods, the places most exposed to beasts and birds of prey, become places of security. Under the new covenant Sion and the hills around are representative of God’ s Church; and temporal blessings are typical of the blessings showered down upon Christ’ s Church by Him who has vanquished the powers of evil.
A plant - Equivalent to the "Branch,"under which name Isaiah and Jeremiah prophesy of the Messiah. The contrast in this verse to hunger seems to favor the idea that the "plant"was for food, i. e., spiritual food, and in this sense also, applicable to the Messiah (compare Joh 6:35.)
The shame of the pagan - The shameful reproaches with which the pagan assail them.
Translate "Ye are my flock, the flock of my pasture (compare Jer 23:1); ye are men, and I am your God."
Poole: Eze 34:30 - -- Thus by these many and great blessings I give them,
shall they know the very heathen shall be convinced.
The Lord who can do what I promise and m...
Thus by these many and great blessings I give them,
shall they know the very heathen shall be convinced.
The Lord who can do what I promise and my people expect.
Their God by covenant from their forefathers.
With them present with them, and reconciled to them, and do bless them.
That they whom they despised and injured, and ere while did make slaves, and used so.
My people my peculiar people above all people in the world; and that though he seemed to have cast him off, and they feared it, and the enemies boasted he had, yet he owns them for his, and will not break his covenant.

Poole: Eze 34:31 - -- Now, that neither you nor any else mistake the allegory, note, saith God, this flock of my pasture are not sheep literally, but they are men express...
Now, that neither you nor any else mistake the allegory, note, saith God, this flock of my pasture are not sheep literally, but they are men expressed by this emblem, and these men are those I am a God to, and will be so for ever.
Haydock -> Eze 34:31
Haydock: Eze 34:31 - -- Men. What has been said of sheep (Menochius) relates to you. ---
Am the Lord. This is not in Hebrew or Protestants. (Haydock) ---
But it is fou...
Men. What has been said of sheep (Menochius) relates to you. ---
Am the Lord. This is not in Hebrew or Protestants. (Haydock) ---
But it is found in one Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint, as this version is thus frequently confirmed. (Kennicott, Dis. ii.)
Gill: Eze 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 g...
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.

Gill: Eze 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 f...
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 souls of men that Christ is the Shepherd and Bishop of, 1Pe 2:25. The Talmudists u frequently make use of this text, to prove that Israelites are only called men, and not the Gentiles; see Mat 15:26.
and I am your God, saith the Lord God; which is often repeated for the certainty of it, because a blessing of the greatest importance, and which includes all others in it; see Eze 34:24.

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TSK Synopsis -> Eze 34:1-31
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
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
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 34:23-31
Keil-Delitzsch: Eze 34:23-31 - --
Appointment of David as Shepherd, and Blessing of the People
Eze 34:23. And I will raise up one shepherd over them, who shall feed them, my servan...
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...
