Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 34:21
Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
21. scattered them abroaddownto the time of the carrying away to Babylon [GROTIUS].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder,…. As the stronger cattle do the lesser:
and pushed all the diseased with your horns; as horned cattle do those they dislike, and bear an antipathy to; which to do to the diseased is great cruelty: sheep, it is said, will take some care of those that are diseased among them, and bring them to places of sunshine and shelter; but here the horned part of the flock, and in health, are represented as acting a barbarous part to the weak and diseased: this may denote such as are in power and authority, using it to the hurt and detriment of those that are under them, and whom they should relieve and protect: it may be applied to the anathemas and excommunications of the Jews, who pronounced those an accursed and ignorant people that believed in Christ, and expelled such out of their synagogues that professed his name; and to their persecutions of the apostles and first Christians:
till he have scattered them abroad; or “without” s; that is, without the land. The Targum is,
“through the provinces;”
obliged them to quit their country, and go unto other parts, as the first preachers of the word did; who, upon the persecution at the death of Stephen, were scattered abroad everywhere, Ac 8:1.
s “foras”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus, Cocceius, Starckius,
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 34:21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
Ver. 21. Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, ] a i.e., With pretence of law on your side, and with power in your hand to do what you list; for who can withstand you?
And pushed all the diseased with your horns,
Till ye have scattered them abroad.
a Toto corpore et conatu.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
ye have: Eze 34:3-5, Dan 8:3-10, Zec 11:5, Zec 11:16, Zec 11:17
pushed: Luk 13:14-16
Reciprocal: Jer 23:1 – pastors Eze 46:18 – my people Zec 10:3 – and I
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 34:21, An overbearing animal will push with its side, shoulders and horns in order to crowd out a weaker one. Thus the he goats had behaved in fleshly Israel, but the Lord was determined that such irregularities would not be permitted in the new service under the son of David. (See Matthew 23:812; 20:25-28.)
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 34:21-22. Because ye have thrust with side and shoulder, &c. Have molested and vexed the poor and weak by your unjust and violent dealings; therefore will I save my flock I will interpose, and rescue the poor of my people from violence and oppression. The reader will easily observe that the metaphors used in these verses are taken from two sorts of cattle, the one of the larger and stronger kind, the other of the smaller and weaker sort, which the larger ones are wont to thrust aside and push at with their horns.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Because some of God’s sheep suffered at the hands of their fellow sheep who pushed and shoved them around, the Lord would deliver even the weak, but He would distinguish the two types of His sheep. He would deliver His people from poor leaders as well as predatory nations.