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Ezekiel 34:5

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they were: Ezekiel 34:6, Ezekiel 33:21, Ezekiel 33:28; 1 Kings 22:17; 2 Chronicles 18:16; Jeremiah 23:2, Jeremiah 50:6, Jeremiah 50:17; Zechariah 13:7; Matthew 9:36

because there is no shepherd: or, without a shepherd, and so Ezekiel 34:8; Zechariah 10:2-3

and they became: Ezekiel 34:8; Isaiah 56:9; Jeremiah 12:9-12; John 10:2; Acts 20:29-31

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