24 Bible Verses about Those Who Kept Stock

Then Jehu got up, left the city, and went to Samaria. When he arrived at the shearing house that was located on the way,

In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.

He sent them as far away from Jacob as a three days' journey could take them.

But Jacob replied to Laban, "You know how I've served you and how your cattle thrived under my care.

Zibeon's children were Aiah and Anah. Anah discovered the hot springs in the wilderness while grazing his father Zibeon's donkeys.

you are to tell him, "Your servants have been taking care of livestock since we were youths. We and our ancestors have taken care of livestock.' That way, you'll be able to live in the Goshen territory, since shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians."

and your children will wander throughout the wilderness for 40 years. They'll bear the consequences of your idolatries until your bodies are entirely consumed in the wilderness.

Now, Doeg the Edomite, one of Saul's officials, was there that day, detained in the LORD's presence. He was the chief of Saul's shepherds.

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this place that is now a ruin without people or animals, and in all its towns there will again be pasture for shepherds resting their flocks.

And she did it again, giving birth to his brother Abel. Abel shepherded flocks and Cain became a farmer.

Adah gave birth to Jabal, who became the ancestor of those who live in tents and herd livestock.

So he asked them, "How's he doing?" "Very well," they answered. "As a matter of fact, look over there! That's his daughter Rachel, coming here with his sheep."

While he was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, since she was a shepherdess.

"What do I have to give you?" Laban asked.

This is a record of Jacob's descendants.

Some time later, his brothers left to tend their father's flock in Shechem.

Pharaoh asked his brothers, "What are your occupations?"

Meanwhile, Moses continued tending the sheep that belonged to his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the sheep to the western desert and came to Horeb, God's mountain, where

Then Samuel told Jesse, "Are these all the young men?" He said, "There yet remains the youngest one, and right now he's tending the sheep." Samuel told Jesse, "Send someone to get him, for we won't do anything else until he arrives here."

So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."

And David would go back and forth from Saul to tend his father's sheep in Bethlehem.

David told Saul, "Your servant has been a shepherd for his father. When a lion or bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

The words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders of Tekoa, which he spoke concerning Israel during the reign of Uzziah, king of Judah and during the reign of Joash's son Jeroboam, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Amos replied in answer to Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet's son, for I have been shepherding and picking the fruit of sycamore trees.