Verse 3
3. 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 (Deuteronomy 32:14; Proverbs 27:27) was unobjectionable, had not these shepherds milked them too often, and that without duly "feeding" them [BOCHART], (Isaiah 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 (John 10:12).
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