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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 34:3 - 34:3
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fat - or, by differently pointing the Hebrew, “milk” [Septuagint]. Thus the repetition “fat” and “fed” is avoided: also the eating of “fat” would not probably be put before the “killing” of the sheep. The eating of sheep’s or goats’ milk as food (Deu 32:14; Pro 27:27) was unobjectionable, had not these shepherds milked them too often, and that without duly “feeding” them [Bochart], (Isa 56:11). The rulers levied exorbitant tributes.
kill ... fed - kill the rich by false accusation so as to get possession of their property.
feed not ... flock - take no care of the people (Joh 10:12).