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Ezekiel 34:1

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 293-295

  • Publications Index

    kj 294

Ezekiel 34:2

Footnotes

  • *

    34:2 Var. What shepherds of Israel they are, that have been tending themselves

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    9/15/1988, pp. 23-24

    3/15/1973, p. 165

    5/1/1966, pp. 272-274

    3/1/1961, pp. 133-135

    12/1/1953, pp. 726-728

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 293-297

  • Publications Index

    w88 9/15 23;

    w73 165; kj 294, 296; w66 273; w61 134; w53 727; w33 310; v-2 222; g30 8/6 732

Ezekiel 34:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 165-166

    3/1/1961, pp. 133-135

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 295-297

  • Publications Index

    w73 165; kj 296; w61 134; v-2 224

Ezekiel 34:4

Footnotes

  • *

    34:4 Var. hunted up, and the strong you ruthlessly repressed;

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 165-166

    7/15/1962, pp. 440-442

    3/1/1961, pp. 133-135

    8/1/1953, pp. 465-467

    5/15/1951, pp. 304-305

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 295-297

  • Publications Index

    w73 165-166; kj 296; w62 441; w61 134; w53 466; w51 305; w39 374; w38 183; v-2 227

Ezekiel 34:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 165-166

    8/1/1953, pp. 465-467

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 295-297

  • Publications Index

    w73 165-166; kj 296; w53 466; w42 67; v-2 228

Ezekiel 34:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 165-166

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 295-297

  • Publications Index

    w73 165-166; kj 296; w42 181; w39 374; v-2 229

Ezekiel 34:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, p. 166

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 296-298

  • Publications Index

    w73 166; kj 297; v-2 230

Ezekiel 34:8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, p. 166

    8/1/1953, pp. 468-470

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 296-298

  • Publications Index

    w73 166; kj 297; w53 469; v-2 230

Ezekiel 34:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, p. 166

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 296-298

  • Publications Index

    w73 166; kj 297; v-2 230

Ezekiel 34:10

Footnotes

  • *

    [34:10 (Have at) that is, to go at or deal with hostilely]

  • *

    34:10 Lit. out of their mouths

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Pure Worship, pp. 90, 101

    The Watchtower,

    9/15/1988, pp. 23-24

    3/15/1973, p. 166

    5/15/1959, pp. 295-297

    8/1/1953, pp. 468-470

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 296-298

  • Publications Index

    rr 90, 101; w88 9/15 23-24;

    w73 166; kj 297; w59 296; w53 469; w38 183; w36 108; v-2 230; g30 8/6 732

Ezekiel 34:11

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Return to Jehovah, p. 4

    The Watchtower,

    5/1/1974, p. 282

    5/15/1973, p. 299

    3/15/1973, pp. 166-167

    8/1/1953, pp. 464-466

    ‘Know Jehovah’, p. 299

  • Publications Index

    rj 4;

    w74 282; w73 166; w73 299; kj 299; w53 465; w42 42; v-2 231

Ezekiel 34:12

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 166-167

    8/1/1953, pp. 464-466

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 299-301

  • Publications Index

    w73 166-167; kj 299-300; w53 465; w42 42; v-2 231

Ezekiel 34:13

Footnotes

  • *

    34:13 (abodes) Susp.

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Pure Worship, pp. 105-106

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 166-167

    8/1/1953, pp. 464-466

    ‘Know Jehovah’, p. 299

  • Publications Index

    rr 105-106;

    w73 166-167; kj 299; w53 465; v-2 232

Ezekiel 34:14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Pure Worship, pp. 105-106

    Return to Jehovah, p. 5

    Kingdom Ministry,

    5/1980, p. 6

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 166-167

    11/15/1957, p. 703

    8/1/1953, pp. 464-466

    ‘Know Jehovah’, p. 299

  • Publications Index

    rr 105-106; rj 5;

    km 5/80 6; w73 166-167; kj 299; w57 703; w53 465; v-2 232

Ezekiel 34:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Pure Worship, p. 107

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, p. 167

    8/1/1953, pp. 464-466

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 300-301

  • Publications Index

    rr 107;

    w73 167; kj 301; w53 465; v-2 234

Ezekiel 34:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Pure Worship, p. 107

    Return to Jehovah, p. 5

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1996, p. 25

    9/15/1988, p. 24

    3/15/1973, p. 167

    8/1/1953, pp. 464-466

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 300-301

  • Publications Index

    rr 107; rj 5; w96 3/15 25; w88 9/15 24;

    w73 167; kj 301; w53 465; v-2 234

Ezekiel 34:17

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 916

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 167-168

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 303-304

  • Publications Index

    it-2 916;

    w73 167-168; ad 1484; kj 303; v-2 235

Ezekiel 34:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 916

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 167-168

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 303-304

  • Publications Index

    it-2 916;

    w73 167-168; ad 1484; kj 303; w36 214, 344; v-2 236

Ezekiel 34:19

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 167-168

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 303-304

  • Publications Index

    w73 167-168; kj 303; w36 214; v-2 237

Ezekiel 34:20

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 916

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 167-168

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 303-304

  • Publications Index

    it-2 916;

    w73 167-168; ad 1484; kj 303; v-2 238

Ezekiel 34:21

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 916

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 167-168

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 303-304

  • Publications Index

    it-2 916;

    w73 167-168; ad 1484; kj 303; v-2 238

Ezekiel 34:22

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 167-168

    8/1/1953, pp. 466-468

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 303-304

  • Publications Index

    w73 167-168; kj 303; w53 467; v-2 239

Ezekiel 34:23

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Pure Worship, pp. 89, 90-91

    The Watchtower,

    4/1/2007, pp. 26-27

    1/1/1993, p. 19

    9/15/1988, p. 24

    12/15/1985, pp. 11-13

    5/15/1973, p. 295

    3/15/1973, p. 168

    7/1/1969, pp. 405-406

    6/15/1966, pp. 377-379

    10/1/1962, p. 586

    3/15/1959, p. 182

    9/15/1958, pp. 553-555

    8/1/1953, pp. 470-472

    Survival, pp. 70-71

    “Eternal Purpose,” p. 125

    Paradise Restored, p. 326

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 303-307, 355-357, 363-365, 403-405

  • Publications Index

    rr 89-91; w07 4/1 26-27; w93 1/1 19; w88 9/15 24;

    w85 12/15 11-13; su 71; po 125; w73 168; w73 295; pm 326; kj 304-306, 356, 364, 404; w69 406; w66 378; w62 586; wr 31; w59 182; w58 554; yw 88; sr55 169; w53 471; rm 171; w46 136, 147; v-2 239

Ezekiel 34:24

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1985, pp. 11-13

    7/15/1973, p. 427

    5/15/1973, p. 295

    3/15/1973, p. 168

    7/1/1969, pp. 405-406

    10/1/1962, p. 586

    3/15/1959, p. 182

    8/1/1953, pp. 470-472

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 303-305, 306-307, 355-357, 363-365, 403-405

  • Publications Index

    w85 12/15 11-13; w73 168; w73 295; w73 427; kj 304, 306, 356, 364, 404; w69 406; w62 586; wr 31; w59 182; yw 88; w53 471; rm 171; w46 147; pn 17; w34 165; jh 242; v-2 239

Ezekiel 34:25

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 593

    Pure Worship, pp. 90-91, 109-111

    Awake!,

    4/8/1991, p. 11

    The Watchtower,

    12/1/1983, p. 31

    4/1/1977, p. 196

    3/15/1973, pp. 168-169

    God’s Kingdom Has Approached, p. 145

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 308-309

  • Publications Index

    it-2 593; rr 91, 109-111; g91 4/8 11;

    w83 12/1 31; w77 196; w73 169; ka 145; kj 308; pn 17; w34 165; jh 242; v-2 240

Ezekiel 34:26

Footnotes

  • *

    34:26 Codd. badlands. And I will make them and the neighborhood of my hill a blessing

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, pp. 168-169

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 308-309

  • Publications Index

    w73 169; kj 308; g61 6/8 8; g48 9/22 10; v-2 241

Ezekiel 34:27

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    1/1/1993, p. 20

    4/1/1977, pp. 197-198

    3/15/1973, p. 169

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 308-309

  • Publications Index

    w93 1/1 20;

    w77 197-198; w73 169; kj 308; g61 6/8 8; g48 9/22 10; v-2 242

Ezekiel 34:28

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, p. 169

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 308-309

  • Publications Index

    w73 169; kj 308; g61 8/22 7; v-2 241

Ezekiel 34:29

Footnotes

  • *

    34:29 (first part) Unc.; susp.; codd. will set up for them a plantation of peace Var. will set up a plantation for their fame

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, p. 169

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 308-310

  • Publications Index

    w73 169; kj 309; v-2 243

Ezekiel 34:30

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, p. 169

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 308-310

  • Publications Index

    w73 169; kj 309; v-2 244

Ezekiel 34:31

Footnotes

  • *

    34:31 Susp.; codd. And you, my sheep, sheep of my pasturing, are men; I am Conj. And I will put my sheep in my pasture on their soil; I am

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1973, p. 169

    8/1/1953, pp. 468-470

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 310-311

  • Publications Index

    w73 169; kj 311; w53 469; v-2 244

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Ezekiel 34:1-31

Ezekiel

34 And Jehovah’s word came to me 2* “Man, prophesy about the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them ‘For the shepherds the Lord Jehovah says, Ho, shepherds of Israel, are shepherds to tend themselves? is it not the sheep that shepherds are to tend? 3 You eat the milk and wear the wool, you slaughter the fattest one, and the sheep you do not tend. 4* The feeble you have not brought up to strength, and the sick you have not cured, and the broken-boned you have not bandaged, and the straying you have not brought back, and the lost you have not hunted up, and you have controlled them by ruthless use of main force; 5 and they scattered about shepherdless, and became food for all the wild beasts. 6 And my sheep scattered and blundered about all over the mountains and on every high hill; all over the country my sheep scattered, and there was nobody reclaiming them, nobody hunting them up.

7 “‘So, shepherds, hear Jehovah’s word! 8 By my life, quoth the Lord Jehovah, since my sheep became an object of plunder and my sheep became food for all the wild beasts for lack of a shepherd, and my shepherds did not reclaim my sheep, but the shepherds tended themselves and did not tend my sheep, 9 therefore, shepherds, hear Jehovah’s word! 10** Says the Lord Jehovah, Have at the shepherds! I will reclaim my sheep out of their hands and make them leave off shepherding my sheep; and the shepherds shall not tend themselves again, but I will deliver my sheep out of their jaws and they shall not be food for them.

11 “‘For the Lord Jehovah says, Here I am, I myself, and I will reclaim my sheep and go over them 12 as a shepherd goes over his flock on the day that he gets into the middle of his sheep that had dispersed; like that I will go over my sheep, and I will deliver them out of all the places to which they had been scattered on a day of cloud and thick air. 13* And I will take them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own soil, and will tend them on the mountains of Israel, in the gorges and in all the abodes of the country. 14 I will pasture them on good pasturage, and on the mountains of Israel’s lofty highland shall be their feeding-ground; there they shall lie down on good ground and pasture fat pasturage on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will pasture my sheep and I myself will see to their lying down, quoth the Lord Jehovah. 16 The lost I will hunt up and the straying I will bring back and the broken-boned I will bandage and the sick I will bring up to strength, and the fat and the strong I will watch over; I will tend them as they should be tended.

17 “‘And you, my sheep! Says the Lord Jehovah, I will judge between animal and animal, the rams and the he-goats. 18 Is it too little for you to pasture off the best pasturage, and you trample the rest of your pasturage with your feet? and you drink the clean part of water and roil the rest with your feet? 19 and my sheep feed on the mess your feet have trampled and drink the stuff your feet have roiled. 20 So the Lord God Jehovah says, Here I am, I myself, and I will judge between fat animal and lean animal. 21 Since you shove with side and shoulder, and butt all sickly ones with your horns till you have scattered them outside, 22 I will save my sheep and they shall not become plunder again, and I will judge between animal and animal. 23 And I will set up over them one shepherd who shall tend them, my servant David; he shall tend them; he shall become their shepherd. 24 And they shall have me, Jehovah, for their God, with my servant David as prince in their midst; I Jehovah promise it. 25 And I will give them a pledge of safety and will clean out dangerous beasts from the country, and they shall settle in the wilderness in confident security and sleep soundly in the badlands. 26* And I will give seasonable showers as a blessing, and send down rainstorms at their season, blessed showers; 27 and the trees on the range shall give their fruits and the earth shall give its crops, and they shall be in confident security on their own soil; and they shall know that I am Jehovah when I break the bows of their yoke. And I will deliver them out of the hands of those who are exploiting them, 28 and they shall never again be an object of plunder for the nations, and the beasts of the country shall not eat them; and they shall live in confident security and have no one to alarm them. 29* And I will raise up for them a planter of peace, and they shall never again be swept off by starvation in the country, nor bear humiliation from the nations again. 30 And they shall know that I their God Jehovah am with them and they are my people the house of Israel, quoth the Lord Jehovah. 31* And I will make my sheep sheep of my pasturing on their soil: I am your God, quoth the Lord Jehovah.’”

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