82 Bible Verses about Sheep

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1 Samuel 25:2

And a man in Maon and his work in Carmel; and the man very great, and to him three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he will be in shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Psalm 144:13

Our garners being filled, bringing forth from sort to sort; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our streets:

Genesis 12:16

And he will do good to Abram on account of her; and there shall be to him sheep and oxen and he-asses, and servants and maids, and she-asses and camels.

Genesis 30:43

And the man will break forth greatly, greatly; and there will be to him many sheep and maids, and servants, and camels and asses.

Exodus 9:3

Behold, the hand of Jehovah is upon thy cattle which are in the field; upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen and upon the sheep: death exceedingly heavy.

Exodus 22:1

If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and slaughter it or sell it, he shall recompense five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Deuteronomy 22:1-2

Thou shalt not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep wandering, and thou shalt not hide from them: turning back, thou shalt turn them back to thy brother. And if thy brother is not near to thee and thou knew him not, and thou receivedst it in the midst of thy house, and it was with thee till thy brother sought it. and thou gavest it back to him.

Joshua 6:21

And they will devote all which in the city, from man and even to woman, and from the youth even to the old man, and ox and sheep and ass, to the mouth of the sword.

2 Samuel 12:2-3

To the rich was sheep and oxen exceeding many: And to the poor, not anything except one little ewe lamb which he found, and he will save it alive: and it will grow with him and with his sons together; it will eat from his morsel and will drink from his cup, and will lie in his bosom, and be to him as a daughter.

Job 1:3

And his possession will be seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pair of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and service exceedingly much; and that man shall be great above all the sons of the east.

Job 42:12

And Jehovah blessed the latter state of Job more than his beginning: and there will be to him fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

1 Samuel 25:18

And Abigail will hasten and take two hundred of bread, and two flasks of wine, and five sheep done, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put upon asses.

Leviticus 7:23

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Any fat of ox, and lamb, and goat, ye shall not eat

Numbers 18:17-18

But the first-born of a cow, or the first-born of a sheep, or the first-born of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: their blood shalt thou pour out upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt burn a sacrifice for an odor of sweetness to Jehovah. And their flesh shall be to thee, as the breast of the lifting up, and as the right shoulder shall be to thee.

1 Samuel 14:32

And the people will make to the spoil, and they will take sheep and oxen, and the young of oxen, and they will slaughter on the earth: and the people will eat upon the blood.

2 Samuel 17:29

And honey and curdled milk, and sheep, and cheeses of kine, they brought near for David and for the people which Are with him, to eat; for they said the people are hungry and faint and thirsty in the desert.

1 Chronicles 12:40

And also those being near to them, even to Issachar, and Zebulon, and Naphtali, bringing bread upon asses and upon camels, and upon mules, and upon oxen; food of flour, round cakes, and dried grapes, and wine and oil, and oxen and sheep for multitude: for joy in Israel.

2 Kings 3:4

And misha king of Moab was a shepherd, and he turned back to the king of Israel a hundred; thousand lambs and a hundred thousand rams, with the fleece.

Genesis 31:19

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel will steal the family gods which were to her father.

Genesis 38:12-13

And the days will be multiplied, and the daughter of Shuah, Judah's wife, will die; and Judah will be comforted, and will go up to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite, to Timnath. And it will be announced to Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

Deuteronomy 18:4

The first fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and thy new oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep thou shalt give to him.

1 Samuel 25:7

And now I heard that shearers were to thee: now the shepherds which are to thee were with us, we harmed them not, and not anything was missing to them all the days of their being in Carmel.

2 Samuel 13:23-24

And it will be for two years of days, and shearers will be to Absalom in Baal-Hazor, which is with Ephraim: and Absalom will call for all the king's sons. And Absalom will come to the king and say, Behold now, shearers to thy servant: now will the king go, and his servants, with thy servant?

Ezekiel 27:18

Damascus thy merchant in the multitude of thy works from the multitude of all riches, with wine of Helbon and wool of whiteness.

Genesis 20:14

And Abimelech will take sheep and oxen and servants, and maid-servants, and will give to Abraham, and will return to him Sarah his wife.

Genesis 30:25-43

And it shall be when Rachel bare Joseph, and Jacob will say to Laban, send me away, and I shall go to my place and to my land. Give my wives and my children, for whom I served thee, and I will go forth; for thou knewest ray work which I served thee. And Laban will say to him, If now I found grace in thine eyes, I prognosticated, and Jehovah will praise me because of thee.read more.
And he will say, Specify thy hire to me, and I will give. And he will say to him, Thou. knewest what I served thee, and what was thy cattle with me. For little which was to thee before me, and it will break forth into a multitude; and Jehovah will praise thee at my foot: and now when shall I make to myself a house? And he will say, What shall I give to thee? and Jacob will say, Thou shalt not give to me anything. If thou wilt do to me this word, I will return; I will feed thy sheep; I will watch. I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire. And my justice shall speak for me in the day tomorrow, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one which is not speckled and patched among the she-goats and black among the lambs, that to be stolen with me. And Laban will say to him, Behold, it shall be according to thy word. And he will remove in that day the he-goats banded and patched, and all the she-goats speckled and patched; every one which being white on it, and every one black among the sheep, and he will give into the hand of his sons. And he will set a way of three days between him and between Jacob; and Jacob fed Laban's sheep the rest. And Jacob will take to himself a rod of green storax, and the almond tree, and the plane tree, and he will strip off of them the white strippings, uncovering the white which was upon the rods. And he set the rods which he stripped, in the flowings of channels of water, when the flock shall come to drink, before the sheep, and they shall be in heat in coming to drink. And the sheep shall conceive at the rods, and shall bring forth sheep banded and speckled and patched. And Jacob separated the lambs, and he will give the faces of the sheep to the banded and every one black among the sheep of Laban: and he will set to himself the flocks, to himself alone, and not put them with Laban's sheep. And it was in every one conceiving of the strong sheep, and Jacob put the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the floorings, to conceive among the rods. And in the sheep being feeble, he will not put in: and those being feeble, were to Laban, and those being strong, to Jacob. And the man will break forth greatly, greatly; and there will be to him many sheep and maids, and servants, and camels and asses.

1 Samuel 16:11

And Samuel will say to Jesse, Are these the whole of the boys? And he will say, The small was yet left, and behold, he fed among the sheep. And Samuel will say to Jesse, Send and take him, for we will not turn about till his coming here.

Genesis 29:2-3

And he will see, and behold, a well in the field, and behold there three flocks of sheep lying by it; for from that well they will water the flocks and the great stone upon the mouth of the well. And they gather there all the flocks; and they rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep, and turned back the stone upon the mouth of the well to its place.

Genesis 37:13

And Israel will say to Joseph, Are not thy brethren feeding in Shechem? Come, and I will send thee to them. And he will say, Behold me.

1 Samuel 17:34-35

And David will say to Saul, Thy servant was feeding for his father among the sheep, and there came the lion and with the bear, and lifted up a sheep from the flock. And I went forth after him, and I smote him, and I delivered from his mouth: and he arose upon me and I seized upon his beard, and I struck him and killed him.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob will flee to the field of Aram, and Israel will serve for a wife, and for a wife he watched.

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth shalt thou make to me, and sacrifice upon it thy burnt-offering and thy peace, and thy sheep and thy cattle: and in every place where I shall cause my name to be remembered, I will come to thee and bless thee.

Leviticus 1:10

And if from the sheep his offering, from the lambs, or from the goats, for a burnt-offering; a blameless male he shall bring it near.

Leviticus 22:19

For your acceptance a blameless male among the cattle, among the sheep, and among the goats.

Numbers 22:40

And Balak will sacrifice oxen and sheep, and he will send to Balaam and to the leaders which were with him.

Deuteronomy 18:3

And this shall be the judgment of the priests from the people, from those sacrificing a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep; and give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks and the maw.

1 Kings 1:9

And Adonijah will sacrifice sheep and oxen and the fatling, by the stone of Zoheleth, which is next the fountain of the fuller, and he will call all his brethren the king's sons, and for all the men of Judah the king's servants:

1 Kings 8:5

And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel assembled together to him, with him before the ark sacrificing sheep and oxen which shall not be counted and shall not be numbered for multitude.

John 2:14

And found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and money-changers sitting;

1 Kings 22:17

And he will say, I saw all Israel scattered to the mountains as sheep which not to them a shepherd: and Jehovah will say, No lords to these; they shall turn back a man to his house in peace.

Numbers 27:16-17

Will Jehovah, the God of the spirits to all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly, Who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who shall bring them out, and who shall bring them in; and the assembly of Jehovah shall not be as sheep to whom not a shepherd to them.

2 Samuel 24:17

And David will say to Jehovah, in his seeing the messenger smiting the people, and he will say, Behold, I sinned and acted perversely; and these sheep, what did they? Now shall thy hand be upon me and upon my father's house.

Zechariah 10:2

For the family gods spake vanity, and the diviners saw falsehood, and they will speak dreams of falsehood they will comfort in vain: for this, they removed as a flock, they were afflicted for there was no shepherd.

Zechariah 13:7

O sword, be raised up against my shepherd, and against the man of my fellowship, says Jehovah of armies: strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered; and I turned back my hand upon the little ones.

Matthew 26:31

Then says Jesus to them, All ye shall be scandalized in me this night; for it has been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered up and down.

Psalm 44:11

Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.

Psalm 49:14

As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him.

Jeremiah 12:3

And thou, Jehovah, knew me: thou wilt see me, and thou didst try my heart with thee: pluck them out as sheep for the slaughter, and consecrate them to the day of slaughter.

Romans 8:36

As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

Psalm 44:22

For, for thee we were killed all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

Matthew 25:32-33

And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids: . And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left.

Ezekiel 34:17

And ye, my sheep, thus said the Lord Jehovah; Behold me judging between sheep to sheep, to the rams and to the he goats.

Matthew 18:12

What does it seem to you? if there be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them have been led astray, does he not, having left the ninety-nine upon the mountains, having gone, seek the one led astray?

Psalm 74:1

Understanding to Asaph. Wherefore, O God, didst thou reject forever? will thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy feeding?

Psalm 78:52

He will remove his people as sheep, and he will lead them as a flock in the desert

Psalm 79:13

And we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture: we will confess to thee forever: to generation and generation we will recount thy praise.

Jeremiah 50:6

My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.

Ezekiel 34:11-15

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me. I also sought my sheep, and I searched them out. According to the seeking of the shepherd of his flock in the day of his being in the midst of his sheep being scattered.; so will I search out my sheep and deliver them from all places where they were scattered there in the day of cloud and darkness. And I brought them out from the peoples, and I gathered them from the lands, and I brought them to their land, and I fed them upon the mountains of Israel by the torrents, and in all the dwellings of the earth.read more.
In a good pasture will I feed them, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall be their rest: there shall they lie in a good rest, and a fat pasture they shall feed upon the mountains of Israel. I will feed my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Jehovah.

Micah 2:12

Gathering, O Jacob, I will gather all of thee; collecting, I will collect the remnant of Israel; together I will set them as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their pasture they shall make noise from man.

John 10:1-16

Truly, truly, I say to you, He not coming in through the door into the court-yard of the sheep, but coming up from another place, he is a thief and robber. And he coming in through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the guard of the door opens; and the sheep hear his voice : and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.read more.
And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger they would not follow, but they will flee from him : for they know not the voice of strangers. This proverb spake Jesus to then: and they knew not what things they were which he spake th them. Then said Jesus again to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, That I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not. I am the door: if any come in through me, he shall be saved, and he shall me in, and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep. The hired flees, because he is hired, and no care is to him for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and am known by mine. As the Father knows me, I also know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have, other sheep, which are not of this court-yard: and I must also bring them, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd.

John 21:16-17

Jesus says to him again the second time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my sheep. He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

Isaiah 5:17

And the lambs feed according to their word, and the deserts of the fat ones shall strangers eat

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Animals » Lions » Sheep

Genesis 30:32

I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire.

Deuteronomy 18:4

The first fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and thy new oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep thou shalt give to him.

Deuteronomy 32:14

Curdled milk of the cow, and milk of the sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of the grape.

2 Chronicles 7:5

And king Solomon will sacrifice a Sacrifice of oxen, twenty and two thousand; and sheep, a hundred and twenty thousand. And the king and all the people will consecrate the house of God.

Beasts » Clean » Sheep

Deuteronomy 7:13

And he loved thee and blessed thee, and multiplied thee: and he blest the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy grain and thy new wine and thy new oil, and the young of thy cows and thy flocks of sheep, upon the land which he sware to thy fathers to give to thee.

Deuteronomy 14:4

These the cattle which thou shalt eat: the ox, the sheep of the lambs, and the sheep of the goats,

Commerce » Articles of » Sheep

Revelation 18:13

And cinnamon, and perfumes, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and the finest wheat flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and of souls of men,

Lost » Power » Sheep

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel a scattered sheep; the lions thrust away: first the king of Assur consumed him; and the last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel bound him fast

Matthew 15:24

And he, having answered, said, I was not sent except to the sheep having been lost, of the house of Israel.

Matthew 10:6

But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Righteous » Compared with » Sheep

Psalm 78:52

He will remove his people as sheep, and he will lead them as a flock in the desert

Matthew 25:33

And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left.

compared to Saints » Sheep

John 10:4

And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

Psalm 78:52

He will remove his people as sheep, and he will lead them as a flock in the desert

Matthew 25:33

And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left.

Sheep » Flesh of, extensively used as food

1 Samuel 25:18

And Abigail will hasten and take two hundred of bread, and two flasks of wine, and five sheep done, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put upon asses.

1 Kings 4:23

Ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen of the shepherd, and a hundred sheep, besides from the stag and the roe and the fallow deer, and fowls fattened.

Isaiah 22:13

And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

1 Kings 1:19

And he will sacrifice oxen and the fatling, and sheep for multitude, and he will call to all the sons of the king, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab, chief of the army: and Solomon thy servant he called not

Nehemiah 5:18

And what was done for one day, one ox, six choice sheep; and birds were done for me, and within ten days with every wine for abundance: and with this, the bread of the prefect I sought not for the servitude was heavy upon this people

Sheep » Were frequently » Taken in great numbers in war

1 Chronicles 5:21

And they will take captive their cattle; their camels fifty thousand, and sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and asses two thousand, and the soul of man, a hundred thousand.

2 Chronicles 14:15

And also tents of cattle they struck, and they will turn back sheep for multitude, and camels; and they will turn back to Jerusalem.

Judges 6:4

And they will encamp against them, and they will destroy the produce of the land even to thy coming to Gaza; and they will not leave means of life in Israel, and sheep and ox and ass.

1 Samuel 14:32

And the people will make to the spoil, and they will take sheep and oxen, and the young of oxen, and they will slaughter on the earth: and the people will eat upon the blood.

Sheep » Described as » Remarkably prolific

Psalm 144:13

Our garners being filled, bringing forth from sort to sort; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our streets:

Psalm 107:41

He will set up the needy on high from affliction, and he will set families as a flock.

Song of Songs 4:2

Thy teeth as a herd of the shorn which came up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and none barren among them.

Ezekiel 36:37

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Yet this will I be sought out to the house of Israel, to do to them; I will multiply them with men as sheep.

Sheep » Time of shearing, a time of rejoicing

2 Samuel 13:23

And it will be for two years of days, and shearers will be to Absalom in Baal-Hazor, which is with Ephraim: and Absalom will call for all the king's sons.

1 Samuel 25:2

And a man in Maon and his work in Carmel; and the man very great, and to him three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he will be in shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning.

1 Samuel 25:11

And took I my bread and my water, and my slaughter which I slaughtered for my shearers, and gave to men whom I knew not from whence they are?

Sheep » Offered in sacrifice under the law

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth shalt thou make to me, and sacrifice upon it thy burnt-offering and thy peace, and thy sheep and thy cattle: and in every place where I shall cause my name to be remembered, I will come to thee and bless thee.

1 Kings 8:63

And Solomon will sacrifice a sacrifice of peace which he sacrificed to Jehovah, twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. And the king and all the sons of Israel will consecrate the house of Jehovah.

Leviticus 1:10

And if from the sheep his offering, from the lambs, or from the goats, for a burnt-offering; a blameless male he shall bring it near.

1 Kings 8:5

And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel assembled together to him, with him before the ark sacrificing sheep and oxen which shall not be counted and shall not be numbered for multitude.

Sheep » Milk of, used as food

Deuteronomy 32:14

Curdled milk of the cow, and milk of the sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of the grape.

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who makes war at any time at his own charges who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

Isaiah 7:21-22

And it was in, that day a man shall preserve alive a heifer of the herd, and two sheep. And it was from the abundance of making milk he shall eat curdled milk; for curdled milk and honey shall eat all they being left in the midst of the land.

Sheep » Figurative » Of the righteous

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel a scattered sheep; the lions thrust away: first the king of Assur consumed him; and the last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel bound him fast

Mark 14:27

And Jesus says to them, That all ye shall be offended with me in this night: for it has been written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

Matthew 26:31

Then says Jesus to them, All ye shall be scandalized in me this night; for it has been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered up and down.

John 10:1-16

Truly, truly, I say to you, He not coming in through the door into the court-yard of the sheep, but coming up from another place, he is a thief and robber. And he coming in through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the guard of the door opens; and the sheep hear his voice : and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. read more.
And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger they would not follow, but they will flee from him : for they know not the voice of strangers. This proverb spake Jesus to then: and they knew not what things they were which he spake th them. Then said Jesus again to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, That I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not. I am the door: if any come in through me, he shall be saved, and he shall me in, and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep. The hired flees, because he is hired, and no care is to him for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and am known by mine. As the Father knows me, I also know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have, other sheep, which are not of this court-yard: and I must also bring them, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd.

Sheep » Constituted a great part of patriarchal wealth

Genesis 24:35

And Jehovah blessed my lord greatly, and he will be great; and he will give to him sheep and oxen, and silver and gold, and servants and maids and camels and asses.

Genesis 26:14

And there will be to him possession of flocks, and possession of oxen, and service of many; and the Philistines will envy him.

Genesis 13:5

And to Lot also going with Abram, were sheep and oxen and tents.

Sheep » Offered in sacrifice from the earliest age

Genesis 15:9-10

And he will say to him, Take to me a heifer of three, and a goat of three, and a ram of three, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. And he will take to him all these, and he will divide them, asunder in the midst, and will put each of its parts divided, opposite its companion: and the birds he divided not

Sheep » Illustrative » (in proneness to wander,) of those who depart from God

Sheep » Flocks of » Attended by members of the family

Exodus 2:16

And to the priest of Midian, seven daughters: and they will come and will draw and fill the watering troughs to water the sheep of their father.

1 Samuel 16:11

And Samuel will say to Jesse, Are these the whole of the boys? And he will say, The small was yet left, and behold, he fed among the sheep. And Samuel will say to Jesse, Send and take him, for we will not turn about till his coming here.

Genesis 29:9

He yet speaking to them, and Rachel came with the sheep were to her father; for she fed them.

Sheep » Flocks of » Fed on the mountains

Exodus 3:1

And Moses was feeding the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he will lead the sheep behind the desert, and he will come to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep will wander upon all the mountains, and upon every high hill: and upon all the face of the earth my flock was scattered, and none searching and none seeking.

Ezekiel 34:13

And I brought them out from the peoples, and I gathered them from the lands, and I brought them to their land, and I fed them upon the mountains of Israel by the torrents, and in all the dwellings of the earth.

Sheep » Skins of, made into a covering for the tabernacle

Exodus 25:5

And skins of rams made red, and tahash skins, and acacia wood;

Exodus 39:34

And the covering of skins of rams made red, and the covering of tahash skins, and the vail of the covering;

Exodus 36:10

And he will bind together the five curtains, the one to the one: and the curtains he joined the one to the one.

Sheep » Wool of, made into clothing

Job 31:20

If his loins did not praise me, and he will be warmed from the fleece of my sheep

Proverbs 31:13

She sought wool and flax, and she will work in delight with her hands.

Sheep » Flocks of » Kept in folds or cotes

1 Samuel 24:3

And he will come to the sheepfolds upon the way, and there a cave; and Saul will come in to cover his feet: and David and his men dwelling in the sides of the cave.

2 Samuel 7:8

And now thus shalt thou say to my servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of armies, I took thee from quiet, from after the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

John 10:1

Truly, truly, I say to you, He not coming in through the door into the court-yard of the sheep, but coming up from another place, he is a thief and robber.

Sheep » Were frequently » Destroyed by wild beasts

John 10:12

But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel a scattered sheep; the lions thrust away: first the king of Assur consumed him; and the last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel bound him fast

Micah 5:8

And the remnant of Jacob was among the nations in the midst of many peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he passed through, and he trod down and pulled in pieces, and none delivering.

Sheep » Illustrative » Of the jews

Psalm 78:52

He will remove his people as sheep, and he will lead them as a flock in the desert

Psalm 74:1

Understanding to Asaph. Wherefore, O God, didst thou reject forever? will thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy feeding?

Psalm 79:13

And we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture: we will confess to thee forever: to generation and generation we will recount thy praise.

Sheep » Were frequently » Given as presents

1 Chronicles 12:40

And also those being near to them, even to Issachar, and Zebulon, and Naphtali, bringing bread upon asses and upon camels, and upon mules, and upon oxen; food of flour, round cakes, and dried grapes, and wine and oil, and oxen and sheep for multitude: for joy in Israel.

2 Samuel 17:29

And honey and curdled milk, and sheep, and cheeses of kine, they brought near for David and for the people which Are with him, to eat; for they said the people are hungry and faint and thirsty in the desert.

Sheep » Were frequently » Given as tribute

2 Chronicles 17:11

And from the rovers bringing a gift to Jehoshaphat, and silver of tribute; also the Arabians bringing to him flocks, seven thousand, and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.

2 Kings 3:4

And misha king of Moab was a shepherd, and he turned back to the king of Israel a hundred; thousand lambs and a hundred thousand rams, with the fleece.

Sheep » Flocks of » Made to rest at noon

Song of Songs 1:7

Announce to me, thou whom my soul loved, where thou wilt feed, where thou wilt lie down at noon: wherefore shall I be as he covered by the herds of thy companions.

Sheep » Flocks of » Watered every day

Genesis 29:8-10

And they will say, We shall not be able, till that all the flocks shall be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; and we water the sheep. He yet speaking to them, and Rachel came with the sheep were to her father; for she fed them. And it shall be when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, and Jacob will come near, and will roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, and will water the sheep of Laban his mother's brother.

Exodus 2:16-17

And to the priest of Midian, seven daughters: and they will come and will draw and fill the watering troughs to water the sheep of their father. And the shepherds will come, and will expel them: and Moses will rise up and help them, and will water their sheep.

Sheep » Males of, called rams

Jeremiah 51:40

I will bring them down as lambs for the slaughter, as rams with he goats.

Sheep » Figurative

Psalm 74:1

Understanding to Asaph. Wherefore, O God, didst thou reject forever? will thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy feeding?

1 Chronicles 21:17

And David will say to God, Is it not I who said to number in the people? and I am he who sinned, and doing evil I did evil; and these sheep, what did they? O Jehovah my God, thy hand now shall be upon me and upon my father's house; and not to smite upon thy people.

Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes and see them coming from the north: where the flock given to thee, the sheep of thy glory?

Sheep » Tribute (taxes) paid in

1 Chronicles 5:21

And they will take captive their cattle; their camels fifty thousand, and sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and asses two thousand, and the soul of man, a hundred thousand.

2 Chronicles 17:11

And from the rovers bringing a gift to Jehoshaphat, and silver of tribute; also the Arabians bringing to him flocks, seven thousand, and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.

2 Kings 3:4

And misha king of Moab was a shepherd, and he turned back to the king of Israel a hundred; thousand lambs and a hundred thousand rams, with the fleece.

Sheep » Shearing of

Genesis 31:19

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel will steal the family gods which were to her father.

Genesis 38:12-17

And the days will be multiplied, and the daughter of Shuah, Judah's wife, will die; and Judah will be comforted, and will go up to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite, to Timnath. And it will be announced to Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law going up to Timnath to shear his sheep. And she will remove the garments of her widowhood from her, and she will be covered with a veil, and will veil herself and will sit in the entrance of the eyes, which is upon the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was great, and she was not given to him for a wife. read more.
And Judah will see her, and will think her a harlot, because she covered her face. And he will turn to her by the way, and will say, Now I will come in to thee; for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law: and she will say, What wilt thou give to me that thou wilt come in to me? And he will say, I will send a kid of the goats from the flock: and she will say, If thou wilt give a pledge till thy sending.

Sheep » Illustrative » Of the people of Christ

John 21:16-17

Jesus says to him again the second time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my sheep. He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

John 10:7-26

Then said Jesus again to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, That I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not. I am the door: if any come in through me, he shall be saved, and he shall me in, and go out, and find pasture. read more.
The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep. The hired flees, because he is hired, and no care is to him for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and am known by mine. As the Father knows me, I also know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have, other sheep, which are not of this court-yard: and I must also bring them, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd. Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command received I of my Father. Then was a division again among the Jews for these words. And many of them said, He has a demon, and is frenzied; why hear ye him? Others said, These are not the words of a demon. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind. And there was the festival of inauguration among the Jerusalemites, and it was winter.. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. Then the Jews surrounded him, and said to him, How long takest thou away our soul? If thou art Christ, say to us with freedom of speech. Jesus answered them, I said to you, and ye believe not: the works which I do in my Father's name, these testify of me. But ye believe not, for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you.

Sheep » Flocks of » Attended by servants

1 Samuel 17:20

And David will rise early in the morning, and will cast the sheep upon a watcher, and he will lift up and go as Jesse commanded him; and he will come to the track, and the army going forth to the array and they shouted in the war.

Isaiah 61:5

And strangers stood and fed your sheep, and the sons of the stranger, your husbandmen and your vinedressers.

Sheep » Bleating of, alluded to

Judges 5:16

Wherefore didst thou dwell in the midst of the folds, To hear the pipings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben, great searching's of heart

1 Samuel 15:14

And Samuel will say, And what the voice of sheep in mine ear, and the voice of the oxen which I hear?

Sheep » Described as » Agile

Psalm 114:4

The mountains leaped as rains, the hills as the sons of the flock.

Psalm 114:6

O mountains, ye will leap as rams? O hills, as sons of the flock?

Sheep » Young of, called lambs

Isaiah 11:6

The wolf dwelt with the lamb; and the panther will lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together, and a little boy leading with them.

Exodus 12:3

Speak ye to all the assembly of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month and they shall take to them each a sheep, according to the house of the fathers; a sheep for a house.

Sheep » Feasting at the time of shearing

2 Samuel 13:23

And it will be for two years of days, and shearers will be to Absalom in Baal-Hazor, which is with Ephraim: and Absalom will call for all the king's sons.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning.

1 Samuel 25:11

And took I my bread and my water, and my slaughter which I slaughtered for my shearers, and gave to men whom I knew not from whence they are?

Sheep » Figurative » Parable of the lost

Luke 15:4-7

What man of you, having one hundred. sheep, and having lost one of them, leaves not the ninety-nine in the desert, and goes for the one lost, till he find it And having found, he puts upon his shoulders, rejoicing. And having come into the house, he calls together friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me: for I have found my lost sheep. read more.
I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance.

Matthew 18:11-13

For the Son of man has come to save the lost. What does it seem to you? if there be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them have been led astray, does he not, having left the ninety-nine upon the mountains, having gone, seek the one led astray? And if it be found, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it, than over the ninety-nine not led astray.

Sheep » Flocks of » Followed the shepherd

John 10:4

And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

Sheep » Illustrative » (when found,) of restored sinners

Luke 15:5

And having found, he puts upon his shoulders, rejoicing.

Sheep » Tithe of, given to the levites

2 Chronicles 31:4-6

And he will say to the people, to those inhabiting Jerusalem, to give the portion of the priests and the Levites so that they shall be strengthened in the law of Jehovah. And when the word broke forth, the sons of Israel increased the first-fruits of the grain, the new wine and the new oil, and honey, and all the produce of the field; and the tenth of all they brought in for abundance. And the sons of Israel and Judah dwelling in the cities of Judah, also they brought in the tenth of oxen and sheep, and the tenth of the holies being consecrated to Jehovah their God, and they will give heaps, heaps.

Sheep » Washed and shorn every year

Song of Songs 4:2

Thy teeth as a herd of the shorn which came up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and none barren among them.

Sheep » Places celebrated for » Bashan

Deuteronomy 32:14

Curdled milk of the cow, and milk of the sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of the grape.

Sheep » Firstlings of, not to be shorn

Deuteronomy 15:19

All the first-born that shall be brought forth among thy cattle and among thy sheep, the male thou shalt consecrate to Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not work with the first-born of thy bullock, and thou shalt not shear first-born of thy sheep.

Sheep » Illustrative » (separated from the goats,) of the separation of saints from the wicked

Matthew 25:32-33

And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids: . And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left.

Sheep » First wool of, given to the priests

Deuteronomy 18:4

The first fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and thy new oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep thou shalt give to him.

Sheep » Clean and used as food

Deuteronomy 14:4

These the cattle which thou shalt eat: the ox, the sheep of the lambs, and the sheep of the goats,

Sheep » Firstlings of, could not be dedicated as a free-will offering

Leviticus 27:26

But the first-born which shall be first to Jehovah among the cattle, a man shall not consecrate it; if an ox, if a sheep, it is to Jehovah.

Sheep » Described as » Innocent

2 Samuel 24:17

And David will say to Jehovah, in his seeing the messenger smiting the people, and he will say, Behold, I sinned and acted perversely; and these sheep, what did they? Now shall thy hand be upon me and upon my father's house.

Sheep » Places celebrated for » Kedar

Ezekiel 27:21

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they the merchants of thy hand with lambs and rams and he goats: in them thy merchants.

Sheep » Figurative » Of lost sinners

Matthew 10:6

But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Sheep » Skins of, worn as clothing by the poor

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;

Sheep » Firstlings of, not to be redeemed

Numbers 18:17

But the first-born of a cow, or the first-born of a sheep, or the first-born of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: their blood shalt thou pour out upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt burn a sacrifice for an odor of sweetness to Jehovah.

Sheep » Illustrative » (lost,) of the unregenerate

Matthew 10:6

But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Sheep » Flocks of » Fed in the valleys

Isaiah 65:10

And Sharon was for a dwelling of sheep, and the valley of Achor for a resting place of the herd, for my people who sought me.

Sheep » False prophets assume the simple appearance

Sheep » Places celebrated for » Nebaioth

Isaiah 60:7

All the sheep of Kedar shall be gathered together to thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall serve thee: they shall go up for acceptance to mine altar and I will adorn the house of my glory.

Sheep » Illustrative » (in patience and simplicity,) of patience, &c of Christ

Sheep » Illustrative » Of the wicked in their death

Psalm 49:14

As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him.

Sheep » Described as » Sagacious

John 10:4-5

And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger they would not follow, but they will flee from him : for they know not the voice of strangers.

Sheep » Flocks of » Frequently covered the pastures

Psalm 65:13

The lambs of the sheep were clothed, and the valleys shall be covered with corn; they shall shout for joy, they shall also sing.

Sheep » Also » Jacob's management of

Genesis 30:32-40

I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire. And my justice shall speak for me in the day tomorrow, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one which is not speckled and patched among the she-goats and black among the lambs, that to be stolen with me. And Laban will say to him, Behold, it shall be according to thy word. read more.
And he will remove in that day the he-goats banded and patched, and all the she-goats speckled and patched; every one which being white on it, and every one black among the sheep, and he will give into the hand of his sons. And he will set a way of three days between him and between Jacob; and Jacob fed Laban's sheep the rest. And Jacob will take to himself a rod of green storax, and the almond tree, and the plane tree, and he will strip off of them the white strippings, uncovering the white which was upon the rods. And he set the rods which he stripped, in the flowings of channels of water, when the flock shall come to drink, before the sheep, and they shall be in heat in coming to drink. And the sheep shall conceive at the rods, and shall bring forth sheep banded and speckled and patched. And Jacob separated the lambs, and he will give the faces of the sheep to the banded and every one black among the sheep of Laban: and he will set to himself the flocks, to himself alone, and not put them with Laban's sheep.

Sheep » Under man's care from the earliest age

Sheep » Females of, called ewes

Psalm 78:71

From those bringing up to care for Jacob his people and for Israel his inheritance.

Sheep » Places celebrated for » Bozra

Micah 2:12

Gathering, O Jacob, I will gather all of thee; collecting, I will collect the remnant of Israel; together I will set them as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their pasture they shall make noise from man.

Sheep » Were frequently » Cut off by disease

Exodus 9:3

Behold, the hand of Jehovah is upon thy cattle which are in the field; upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen and upon the sheep: death exceedingly heavy.

Sheep » Illustrative » Of those under God's judgment

Psalm 44:1

To the overseer for the sons of Korah: of instruction. O God, with our ears we heard; our fathers recounted to us the work thou didst in their days, in days of old.

Sheep » Flocks of » Conducted to the richest pastures

Sheep » Described as » Being covered with a fleece

Job 31:20

If his loins did not praise me, and he will be warmed from the fleece of my sheep

Sheep » Flocks of » Fled from strangers

John 10:5

And a stranger they would not follow, but they will flee from him : for they know not the voice of strangers.

Sheep » Also » Sharon

Isaiah 65:10

And Sharon was for a dwelling of sheep, and the valley of Achor for a resting place of the herd, for my people who sought me.

Sheep » Also » Kedar

Ezekiel 27:21

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they the merchants of thy hand with lambs and rams and he goats: in them thy merchants.

Sheep » Offered in sacrifice » By abraham

Genesis 22:13

And Abraham will lift up his eyes, and will see and behold a ram behind, being held in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham will come and take the ram and bring it for a burnt offering instead of his son.

Sheep » Figurative » Of the defenselessness of servants of God (greek: diakonoi)

Sheep » Figurative » Of backsliders

Jeremiah 50:6

My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.

Sheep » Flocks of » Guarded by dogs

Job 30:1

And now the younger than I laughed upon me, which I rejected their fathers to set with the dogs of my flock.

Sheep » Also » Nebaioth

Isaiah 60:7

All the sheep of Kedar shall be gathered together to thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall serve thee: they shall go up for acceptance to mine altar and I will adorn the house of my glory.

Sheep » Also » Bozrah

Micah 2:12

Gathering, O Jacob, I will gather all of thee; collecting, I will collect the remnant of Israel; together I will set them as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their pasture they shall make noise from man.

Sheep » The land of bashan adapted to the raising of

Deuteronomy 32:14

Curdled milk of the cow, and milk of the sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of the grape.

Sheep » Milk of, used for food

Deuteronomy 32:14

Curdled milk of the cow, and milk of the sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of the grape.

Sheep » Offered in sacrifice » By noah

Sheep » The first fleece of, belonged to the priests and the levites

Deuteronomy 18:4

The first fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and thy new oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep thou shalt give to him.

Sheep » Offered in sacrifice » By abel

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Ezekiel 24:5

Take the choice of the flock and also wheel the bones under it, boil its boilings; also they cooked the bones in the midst of it

Sheep Shearing

1 Samuel 25:7

And now I heard that shearers were to thee: now the shepherds which are to thee were with us, we harmed them not, and not anything was missing to them all the days of their being in Carmel.

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