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Ezekiel 34:14

in Ezekiel 34

I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

KJV

I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

This verse in Ezekiel 34

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

20:40, the phrase is "the mountain of the height of Israel" in the singular number. The reason for the difference is: there Ezekiel spoke of the central seat of the kingdom, Mount Zion, where the people met for the worship of Jehovah; here he speaks of the kingdom of Israel at large, all the parts of which are regarded as possessing a moral elevation.

This site's exposition

I Myself will search for My flock

on Ezekiel 34:11-16

What the shepherds failed to do, God announces He will do Himself. He will seek the scattered, bind the broken, strengthen the weak. The unit ends on a harder note, “the sleek and strong I will destroy”, naming that some had grown strong by preying on the weak.

This site's exposition

the lofty mountains of Israel

The lofty mountains are the same heights where the flock had strayed in verse 6, now turned into grazing land. Lying down is the sign of sheep that are fed and unafraid, the picture of Psalm 23:2. Ezekiel 20:40 calls this height the LORD's holy mountain.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers2 voices

A commentator

Augustine of Hippo

SERMON 46:30 · Written before 430.

proposed

This is feeding Christ, this is feeding for Christ, this is feeding in Christ, not feeding oneself apart from Christ. There is not really a dearth of shepherds.

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 11 onwards) For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his dispersed sheep (or when there is darkness and clouds among his separated sheep), so will I seek out my sheep and will deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

); there shall their feeding be, and there shall be their fold; and it is a good fold. There God will not only feed them, but cause them to lie down (

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The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּמִרְעֶה־in pasture

    bemireh-H4829 →13 times

  • טּוֹב֙good

    tovH2896 →538 times

  • אֶרְעֶ֣הI will shepherd

    ʾerehH7462 →177 times

  • אֹתָ֔ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • וּבְהָרֵ֥יand on [the] mountains of

    uvehareiH2022 →546 times

  • מְרֽוֹם־[the] height of

    merom-H4791 →54 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • יִהְיֶ֣הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • נְוֵהֶ֑םpastureland their

    nevehemH5116 →35 times

  • שָׁ֤םthere

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • תִּרְבַּ֙צְנָה֙they will lie down

    tirbatznahH7257 →30 times

  • בְּנָ֣וֶהin pastureland

    benavehH5116 →35 times

  • טּ֔וֹבgood

    tovH2896 →538 times

  • וּמִרְעֶ֥הand pasture

    umirehH4829 →13 times

  • שָׁמֵ֛ןrich

    shamenH8082 →

  • תִּרְעֶ֖ינָהthey will graze

    tireinahH7462 →177 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָרֵ֥י[the] mountains of

    hareiH2022 →546 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 31:25

    for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”

    it leads to

    • Matthew 5:6

      Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • John 4:14

      But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Matthew 11:28

      Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

  • Through

    John 10:9

    I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

    it leads to

    • John 14:6

      Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

    • Ephesians 2:18

      For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

    • John 10:7

      So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

    • John 10:1

      “Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

    • Romans 5:1–2

      Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Augustine of Hippo, SERMON 46:30; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.