Sheep

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Ezekiel 34:3 OT

  You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.

• 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 15:9 OT

  He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

• Genesis 15:10 OT

  He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.

• Exodus 20:24 OT

  You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

• Leviticus 1:10 OT

  “ ‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.

• 1 Kings 8:5 OT

  King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

• 1 Kings 8:63 OT

  Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house.

• Genesis 29:9 OT

  While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.

• Exodus 2:16 OT

  Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

• 1 Samuel 16:11 OT

  Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

• 1 Samuel 17:20 OT

  David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.

• Isaiah 61:5 OT

  Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.

• Job 30:1 OT

  “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

• 1 Samuel 24:3 OT

  He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave.

• 2 Samuel 7:8 OT

  Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

• John 10:1 NT

  “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

• Psalms 23:2 OT

  He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

• Exodus 3:1 OT

  Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.

• Ezekiel 34:6 OT

  My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

• Ezekiel 34:13 OT

  I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

• 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.

• Psalms 65:13 OT

  The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.

• Genesis 29:8-10 OT

  They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.” While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them. When…