Shepherd

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Genesis 31:38-40 OT

  “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks. That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you…

• Psalms 78:52 OT

  But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

• Psalms 78:53 OT

  He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

• Jeremiah 31:10 OT

  “Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

• Amos 3:12 OT

  Yahweh says: “As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.”

• Luke 2:8 NT

  There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

• 1 Samuel 17:34 OT

  David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

• 1 Samuel 17:35 OT

  I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

• Psalms 23:2 OT

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

• Song of Solomon 1:7 OT

  Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

• Jeremiah 33:12 OT

  Yahweh of Armies says: “Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

• Leviticus 27:32 OT

  All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 33:13 OT

  In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of him who counts…

• John 10:3-5 NT

  The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.…

• Matthew 25:32 NT

  Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

• Genesis 29:2-10 OT

  He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large. There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone…

• Numbers 32:16 OT

  They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;

• 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.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10 OT

  He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

• Micah 4:8 OT

  You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

• 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.

• Genesis 46:34 OT

  that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”