Sheep

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 4:4 OT

  Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

• Genesis 8:20 OT

  Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

• Genesis 22:13 OT

  Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

• Deuteronomy 32:14 OT

  butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

• Micah 2:12 OT

  I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people.

• Ezekiel 27:21 OT

  “ ‘ “Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, rams, and goats. In these, they were your merchants.

• Isaiah 60:7 OT

  All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.

• Isaiah 65:10 OT

  Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

• Genesis 30:32-40 OT

  I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire. So my righteousness will answer for me…

• Genesis 31:19 OT

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

• Genesis 38:12-17 OT

  After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to…

• Isaiah 53:7 OT

  He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

• 1 Samuel 25:11 OT

  Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”

• 1 Samuel 25:36 OT

  Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

• 2 Samuel 13:23 OT

  After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

• Deuteronomy 18:4 OT

  You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.

• 2 Kings 3:4 OT

  Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.

• 1 Chronicles 5:21 OT

  They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.

• 2 Chronicles 17:11 OT

  Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.

• 1 Chronicles 21:17 OT

  David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s…

• Psalms 74:1 OT

  God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

• Jeremiah 13:20 OT

  Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?

• Jeremiah 50:6 OT

  My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

• Matthew 9:36 NT

  But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.