The Strand Study Bible

EZEKIEL 34:22

EZEKIEL 35:10

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with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; 22 1 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. P The promise of a Kingdom where 23 And I will set up one 2 SHEPHERD over them, and 3 HE shall feed them, even my servant 4 DAVID ; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. P 24 And I the LORD will be their GOD , 3 and my servant 4 DAVID 5 a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it. P 25 1 And I will make with them a 6 cov- enant of peace, 7 and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. P 26 1 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his sea- son; there shall be showers of blessing. P 27 1 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her in- crease, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. P 28 1 And they shall no more 8 be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. P 29 3 And I will raise up for them a 9 PLANT OF RENOWN , and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. PP 30 1 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are 10 my people, saith the Lord GOD. P CHRIST will rule (Fulfilled - Rev 20:4,6)

31 1 And ye my flock, the flock of my pas- ture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD. P Ezekiel 35 The promise of Edom’s fall to Babylon (Fulfilled - 582 BC) (Note - This portion of Ezekiel’s prophecy took place in the 20th year of King Nebuchadnezzar’s reign) Date Written - 585 BC/AM 3415 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against mount 11 Seir, and prophesy against it, 3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, 12 and I will make thee most desolate. P 4 12 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. P 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual ha- tred, and hast shed the blood of the chil- dren of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their 13 calamity, 14 in the time that their iniquity had an end: 6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, 12 I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. P 7 12 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that pass- eth out and him that returneth. P 8 12 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. P 9 12 I will make thee perpetual desola- tions, 15 and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. P 10 Because thou hast said, These 16 two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:

1. Fulfilled - Rev 20:4 (Israel’s

Restoration) 2. Gen 49:24 & Eccl 12:11 & Isa 40:11 & Ezk 34:23 & Zech 13:7 & Jn 10:11 & Heb 13:20 & I Pet 2:25 & 5:4 & Rev 7:17 3. Fulfilled - Rev 20:4,6 (Christ’s Kingdom) (See - Rev 7:16-17) 4. or, “Christ” - Psa 132:11 & Jere 30:9 & Ezk 37:24-25 & Hos 3:5 & Mt 9:27 & 12:23 & Lk 1:32-33 & Rom 1:3 5. Ezk 44:3 6. Jere 31:31-34 7. Isa 11:6-8 & 35:9 & Hos 2:18 8. Amos 9:15 9. or, “Christ” Fulfilled - Jn 10:10 (New Life in Christ) (See - Isa 4:2 & 11:1 & 53:2 Jere 23:5 & 33:15 & Ezk 17:22 & Zech 6:12) 10. Psa 100:3 11. or, “Edom” -

Jere 49:7-22 & Ezk 25:12-14 & Obad 1 12. Fulfilled - 582 BC (Fall of Edom) 13. Obad 11-14 14. II Ki 25 15. Mal 1:3-4 16. that is, “Israel and Judah”

34:23 GOD THE FATHER ( And I ; the SHEPHERD of Israel – vs 12) will shepherd His people by setting up His own SHEPHERD ( CHRIST – Jn 10:11-16, Gen 49:24, Isa 40:11, Ezk 37:24, Heb 13:20, I Pet 2:25 & 5:4 and Rev 7:17 ) over them. 34:25 This covenant is not the same as the New Covenant ( Jere 31:31 ), but will be initiated after the New is fulfilled. Under the covenant of peace the Lord will remove foreign nations ( evil beasts ), shower Israel and their land with blessings (vs 26-27), and guarantee complete security (vs 28). 35:5 The hatred that Edom had for Israel started with its founder – Esau (Jere 49:7-10 and Gen 36:1), who sold his birthright for a cheap bowl of soup ( Gen 25 :19- 32 ). That one act of selfishness on the part of Esau led his descendants down the same path of self-destruction. and because of Esau’s anger, envy and hatred for Jacob (Gen 25-27), the descendants of Esau hated Israel with a perpetual hatred . 35:9 Because Edom had a perpetual hatred for Israel (vs 5), God would destroy Edom till Edom would no longer exist as a nation ( perpetual desolations – Obad 1:5 ).