SHEEP

Passages on this topic · 65

• Genesis 4:4

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

• Genesis 8:20

  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

  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.

• Genesis 30:32

  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.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

• Genesis 30:34

  Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

• Genesis 30:35

  That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

• Genesis 30:36

  He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

• Genesis 30:37

  Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

• Genesis 30:39

  The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

• Genesis 31:19

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

• Genesis 38:12

  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.

• Genesis 38:13

  Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

• Genesis 38:14

  She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

• Genesis 38:15

  When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

• Genesis 38:16

  He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

• Genesis 38:17

  He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

• Deuteronomy 18:4

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

• Deuteronomy 32:14

  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.

• 1 Samuel 25:11

  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

  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

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

• 2 Kings 3:4

  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

  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.

• 1 Chronicles 21:17

  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 house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”

• 2 Chronicles 17:11

  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.

• Psalms 74:1

  A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

• Isaiah 53:7

  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.

• Isaiah 60:7

  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

  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.

• Jeremiah 13:20

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

• Jeremiah 50:6

  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.

• Jeremiah 50:17

  “Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

• Ezekiel 27:21

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

• Micah 2:12

  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.

• Matthew 9:36

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

• Matthew 10:6

  Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

• Matthew 10:16

  “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

• Matthew 18:11

  For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

• Matthew 18:12

  “What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

• Matthew 18:13

  If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

• Matthew 26:31

  Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

• Mark 14:27

  Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

• Luke 15:4

  “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

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

• Luke 15:6

  When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

• Luke 15:7

  I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

• John 10:1

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

• John 10:2

  But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

• John 10:3

  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.

• John 10:4

  Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

• John 10:5

  They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

• John 10:6

  Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

• John 10:7

  Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

• John 10:8

  All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

• John 10:9

  I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

• John 10:10

  The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

• John 10:11

  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

• John 10:12

  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 10:13

  The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

• John 10:14

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

• John 10:15

  even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

• John 10:16

  I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.