SHEPHERD

Passages on this topic · 76

• Genesis 4:2

  Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

• Genesis 29:2

  He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, 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.

• Genesis 29:3

  There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.

• Genesis 29:4

  Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”

• Genesis 29:5

  He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”

• Genesis 29:6

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

• Genesis 29:7

  He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”

• Genesis 29:8

  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.”

• Genesis 29:9

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

• Genesis 29:10

  When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

• Genesis 31:38

  “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.

• Genesis 31:39

  That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

• Genesis 31:40

  This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

• Genesis 46:34

  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.”

• Genesis 49:24

  But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

• Genesis 78:52
• Genesis 80:1
• Exodus 2:16

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

• Exodus 3:1

  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.

• Leviticus 27:32

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

• Numbers 32:16

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

• 1 Samuel 16:11

  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 17:34

  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

  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.

• 1 Samuel 24:3

  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

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  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.

• Job 30:1

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

• Psalms 1:7
• Psalms 23:2

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

• Psalms 78:52

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

• Psalms 78:53

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

• Psalms 78:70

  He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

• Isaiah 40:11

  He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

• Isaiah 44:28

  Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”

• Jeremiah 31:10

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

• Jeremiah 33:12

  Yahweh of Armies says: “Yet again shall there 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.

• Jeremiah 33:13

  In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who counts them,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 3:12

  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.”

• Micah 4:8

  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.

• Zechariah 13:7

  “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

• Matthew 25:32

  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.

• 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 2:8

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

• Luke 2:9

  Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

• Luke 2:10

  The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

• Luke 2:11

  For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

• Luke 2:12

  This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”

• Luke 2:13

  Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,

• Luke 2:14

  “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

• Luke 2:15

  When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

• Luke 2:16

  They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough.

• Luke 2:17

  When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.

• Luke 2:18

  All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds.

• Luke 2:19

  But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

• Luke 2:20

  The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.

• 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.

• Hebrews 13:20

  Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

• 1 Peter 2:25

  For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

• 1 Peter 5:4

  When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.