11 occurrences

'Flocks and Herds' in the Bible

He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

Verse ConceptsCowsSheepAnimals, Types OfOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesMultitudes Of DonkeysPeople Giving Other ThingsPossessing Sheep

But Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

Verse ConceptsTentsOwning LivestockPossessing Sheep

And Jehovah hath blessed my master greatly. And he is become great. And he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCowsGenerosity, God'sGoldSilverAbraham, In SocietyOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesSupplied With MoneyBlessed By GodMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy People

For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfOwning LivestockThose Who EnviedPossessing Sheeppossessions

Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps;

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies InTwo GroupsOwning LivestockHalf Of GroupsFear Of IndividualsPossessing Sheep

And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

For their [great flocks and herds and] possessions made it impossible for them to live together [in the same region]; the land in which they lived temporarily could not support them because of their livestock.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialPeople ProvidingWealthy Peoplepossessions

The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have:

Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenLiving In The LandNeighboursImmigrantsland

Joseph went and told Pharaoh, "My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.

Verse ConceptsGoatsHorsesMarketsOwning LivestockAnimals, Types OfBarteringLoss Of DonkeysAcquiring HorsesPossessing Sheep

and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household. They left only their little ones and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

Verse ConceptsPeople Abandoning People

Moses replied, “We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds because we must hold Yahweh’s festival.”

Verse ConceptsHerdsAll PeopleBoth Men And Animals AffectedFestivals Observed

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, "Go, serve the Lord -- only your flocks and herds will be detained. Even your families may go with you."

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningWorship God!

And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks and herds very much cattle.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesLargenessMixed MultitudeMixing People

No one may go up with you; in fact, no one must be seen anywhere on the mountain. Even the flocks and herds are not to graze in front of that mountain.”

Verse ConceptsActing AloneEmpty Places

Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated Animals

So David captured all the flocks and herds [which the enemy had], and [the people] drove those animals before him and said, “This is David’s spoil.”

Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of Sin

From his own royal flocks and herds, Josiah supplied the people with 30,000 lambs and goats for the Passover sacrifice, as well as 3,000 cattle.

Verse ConceptsThree Thousand And UpThirty Thousand And Up

I bought male and female slaves and I had homeborn slaves. Also I possessed flocks and herds larger than all who preceded me in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsOwning LivestockGroups Of Slaves

They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion;they will be radiant with joybecause of the Lord’s goodness,because of the grain, the new wine, the fresh oil,and because of the young of the flocks and herds.Their life will be like an irrigated garden,and they will no longer grow weak from hunger.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheGarden, NaturalHorticultureWater IrrigationJoy, And Human ExperienceWineHerdsMetaphorical WateringPeople Providing

With their flocks and herds they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsLonelinessSin, Effects OfReprobatesNot FindingGod Hiding

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

Verse ConceptsSheepWagesIsrael FleeingOther Wivessyria

Flocks and herds will lie down in the middle of it, as well as every kind of wild animal. Owls will sleep in the tops of its support pillars; they will hoot through the windows. Rubble will cover the thresholds; even the cedar work will be exposed to the elements.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsThings StrippedPelicansHedgehogsCedar Wood

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