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Yehezkiel 34:3

Kamu menikmati susunya, dari bulunya kamu buat pakaian, yang gemuk kamu sembelih, tetapi domba-domba itu sendiri tidak kamu gembalakan.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Minister, Christian;   Rulers;   Wool;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Leaders;   Religious;   Shepherds;   Wool;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Shepherds/pastors;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Garments;   Sheep;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Shepherd;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Flock;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Fatlings, Fatted;   Pastor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Shepherd;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pastor;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Wool;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wool;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Didascalia;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kamu menikmati susunya, dari bulunya kamu buat pakaian, yang gemuk kamu sembelih, tetapi domba-domba itu sendiri tidak kamu gembalakan.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa kamu mengenyangkan dirimu dengan susunya dan kamu berpakaikan dirimu dengan bulunya dan yang tambun-tambun kamu bantai, tetapi tiada kamu menggembalakan kawan kambing itu!

Contextual Overview

1 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying: 2 Thou sonne of man, prophecie against the shepheardes of Israel, prophecie and speake vnto them: thus saith the Lorde God vnto the shepheardes, Wo be vnto the shepheardes of Israel that feede them selues: should not the shepheards feede the flockes? 3 Ye eate vp the fat, ye clothe you with the wooll, the best fed do ye slay: but the flocke do ye not feede. 4 The weake haue ye not strengthened, the sicke haue ye not healed, the broken haue ye not bounde together, the dryuen away haue ye not brought againe, the lost haue ye not sought: but with force and crueltie haue ye ruled them. 5 They are scattered without a shephearde, yea all the beastes of the fielde deuour them, and they go astray. 6 My sheepe go wandring vpon al mountaines, and vpon euery hie hill, yea my flocke is scattered through all the face of the earth, and there is no man that seeketh or searcheth [after them.]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eat: Isaiah 56:11, Isaiah 56:12, Zechariah 11:5, Zechariah 11:16

ye kill: Ezekiel 19:3, Ezekiel 19:6, Ezekiel 22:25-28, Ezekiel 33:25, Ezekiel 33:26, 1 Kings 21:13-16, 2 Kings 21:16, Isaiah 1:10, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 22:17, Lamentations 4:13, Micah 3:1-3, Zephaniah 3:3

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 34:8 - the shepherds Ezekiel 34:18 - to have Ezekiel 34:21 - ye have Ezekiel 46:18 - my people Micah 3:2 - pluck Matthew 9:36 - as Matthew 24:49 - and to Luke 12:42 - to give Luke 12:45 - to beat Acts 20:28 - to feed Acts 20:29 - not Philippians 3:19 - whose God 1 Peter 5:2 - Feed

Cross-References

Ruth 1:14
And they lift vp their voyces, & wept againe: and Orpha kissed her mother in lawe, but Ruth abode still by her.
1 Samuel 18:1
And whe he had made an end of speaking vnto Saul, the soule of Ionathan was knit with the soule of Dauid, and Ionathan loued him as his owne soule.
2 Samuel 19:7
Nowe therfore vp, and come out, and speake cofortably vnto thy seruauntes: For I sweare by the Lorde, except thou come out, there will not tary one man with thee this night, and that wilbe worse vnto thee, then all the euyll that fell on thee from thy youth vnto this houre.
2 Chronicles 30:22
And Hezekia spake comfortablie vnto all the Leuites that had good knowledge [to sing] vnto the Lorde: and they did eate throughout that feast seuen dayes long, and offered peace offringes, and thanked the Lorde God of their fathers.
Isaiah 40:2
Comfort Hierusalem at the heart, and tell her, that her trauayle is at an ende, that her offence is pardoned, that she hath receaued at the Lordes hande sufficient correction for all her sinnes.
Hosea 2:14
Wherefore beholde, I wyll allure her and bryng her into the wildernesse, and speake frendly vnto her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye eat the fat,.... The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it, "the milk"; the words for fat and milk differ only in the points; and this was not unlawful, for

who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 1 Corinthians 9:7, provided it was done with moderation, that they ate some, but not all; but these rulers milked their subjects too much, oppressed them with heavy taxes, and got their substance into their own hands. The Targum is,

"ye eat the good;''

they got possessed of the best of their substance; as did also their ecclesiastical rulers, who were greedy shepherds, that could never have enough; they looked for their gain from their quarter, and even devoured widows' houses, Isaiah 56:11:

ye clothe you with the wool: the pure wool, as the Targum, the finest of it; they fleeced the flock, and stripped the people of their riches; and minded nothing but their own backs and bellies:

ye kill them that are fed; or, that "are fat" q; the richest of the people they brought accusations and charges against for capital crimes; and so put them to death under a colour of justice, that they, might get their estates into their hands:

but ye feed not the flock; did not govern the people well, by doing justice and judgment among men, as became civil magistrates; did not deliver out words of faith and sound doctrine, to feed the souls of men with, which is the duty of those that preside in the church of God.

q הבריאה "quod pingue est", Vatablus, Bochartus; "pinguem", Cocceius, Starckius. So Ben Melech.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 34:3. Ye eat the fat — I think החלב hacheleb should be translated the milk; and so most of the Versions understand it. Or they lived on the fat sheep, and took the wool of all.

"The priests," says Calmet, "ate the tithes, the first-fruits, and the offerings of the people; the princes received the tributes and imposts; and instead of instructing and protecting them, the latter took away their lives by the cruelties they practiced against them: the former destroyed their souls by the poison of their doctrine, and by their bad example. The fat sheep point out the rich, to whom these pastors often disguised the truth, by a cruel condescension and complaisance."


 
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