Numbers 27:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

Go out

John 10:3

As sheep

General references

Deuteronomy 28:6

Bible References

Go out

And he said to them, "I am hundred and twenty years old {today}; I am not able to go out and to come [in] [any] longer, and Yahweh said to me, 'You may not cross this Jordan.'

so that we {also} may be like all the nations, and our king may rule us and go out before us and fight our battles."

So Saul removed him {from his presence}, and made him commander of a thousand, {so he marched in and out at the front of the army}.

{For some time}, when Saul was king over us, {you were leading Israel in and out}. Yahweh had said to you, 'You shall be the shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be the leader over Israel.'"

So then, O Yahweh, you are my God. You have made your servant king in place of David my father [though] I [am] a young boy. I do not know going out or coming in.

Now, give to me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this, your great people?"

For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

As sheep

So he said, "I saw all of Israel scattering to the mountains, like the sheep without a shepherd. Yahweh also said, 'There are no masters for these, let them return in peace, each to his house.'"

Then he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains like sheep that had no shepherd. And Yahweh said, 'These have no masters; let them return to his own house in peace.'"

And they were scattered {without} a shepherd, and they were as food for all the animals of the field [when] they were scattered.

Because the household gods speak deceit, and those who practice divination see a lie, and the dreamers of vanity speak in vain. Therefore [the people] wander like sheep; they are afflicted because there is no shepherd.

"O sword, awake against my shepherd, against [the] man [who is] my associate," {declares} Yahweh of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, so that the sheep may be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the small [ones].

And [when he] saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were weary and dejected, like sheep that did not have a shepherd.

but go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But he answered [and] said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

And getting out [of the boat] he saw the large crowd and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep {without} a shepherd, and he began to teach them many [things].

For you were going astray like sheep, but you have turned back now to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

General references

"Blessed will you be {when you come in and blessed will you be when you go out}.