Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.

King James Version

And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Holman Bible

I will give you shepherds who are loyal to Me, and they will shepherd you with knowledge and skill.

International Standard Version

I'll give you shepherds after my own heart, and they'll shepherd you with knowledge and good sense."

American Standard Version

and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Amplified

“Then [in the final time] I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and [true] understanding.

Bible in Basic English

And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

Darby Translation

And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Julia Smith Translation

And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.

King James 2000

And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart and they will feed you knowledge and insight.

Modern King James verseion

And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and I will give you herdsmen after mine own mind, which shall feed you with learning and wisdom.

NET Bible

I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.

New Heart English Bible

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

The Emphasized Bible

and will give you shepherds according to mine own heart, - who will feed you with knowledge and discretion.

Webster

And I will give you pastors according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

World English Bible

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Youngs Literal Translation

And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will give
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

you with knowledge
דּעה 
De`ah 
Usage: 6

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

A Call For Repentance

14 ‘Return, O faithless sons,’ declares the Lord;
‘For I am a master to you,
And I will take you one from a city and two from a family,
And I will bring you to Zion.’
15 “Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding. 16 It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land,” declares the Lord, “they will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again.


Cross References

Acts 20:28

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Jeremiah 23:4

I will also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:23

“Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.

1 Corinthians 3:1-2

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.

Ephesians 4:11-12

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

John 10:1-5

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

John 21:15-17

So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”

1 Samuel 13:14

But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many,
But fools die for lack of understanding.

Isaiah 30:20-21

Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.

Ezekiel 37:24

“My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

Micah 5:4-5

And He will arise and shepherd His flock
In the strength of the Lord,
In the majesty of the name of the Lord His God.
And they will remain,
Because at that time He will be great
To the ends of the earth.

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time?

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;

1 Corinthians 2:12-13

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

Hebrews 5:12-14

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

1 Peter 2:2

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

1 Peter 5:1-4

Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed,

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