Shepherd

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Psalms 23:4 OT

  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

• Song of Solomon 1:8 OT

  If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

• Isaiah 38:12 OT

  My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

• Genesis 29:6 OT

  He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”

• 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 17:15 OT

  Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

• 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.

• John 10:12 NT

  He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

• John 10:14 NT

  I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

• Psalms 77:20 OT

  You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

• Psalms 78:52 OT

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

• Psalms 80:1 OT

  Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

• 1 Chronicles 4:39-41 OT

  They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended…

• Psalms 23:2 OT

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

• 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…

• Luke 2:8 NT

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

• Genesis 33:13 OT

  Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

• Genesis 33:14 OT

  Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”

• Psalms 78:71 OT

  from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

• 1 Samuel 17:34-36 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, I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught…

• 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.”

• Ezekiel 34:12 OT

  As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

• Luke 15:4 NT

  “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

• Luke 15:5 NT

  When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.