* the shepherds.
The shepherds of Israel, signify their kings and princes,
priests and prophets; the flock, the whole of the people; the
fat and wool, the tithes and offerings, taxes and imposts:
these they exacted with great rigour, and even oppressed and
destroyed the people to enrich themselves; but they bestowed
no pains to provide for the welfare of the state, or for the
souls of those entrusted to them. They knew nothing about
their flock: it might be diseased, infirm, bruised, maimed,
strayed, or lost, for they watched not over them.
# 33:24; Jer 2:8; 3:15; 10:21; 12:10; Joh 10:1,2,12|
* Woe.
# 8-10; 13:19; Jer 23:1; Mic 3:1-3,11,12; Zep 3:3,4; Zec 11:17|
# Mt 24:48-51; Lu 12:42-46; 20:46,47; Ro 16:18; 2Pe 2:3|
* feed.
# 2Sa 5:2; Ps 78:71,72; Isa 40:11; Joh 21:15-17; Ac 20:26,29|
# 1Pe 5:2-4|
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