Reference: Fold
Easton
an enclosure for flocks to rest together (Isa 13:20). Sheep-folds are mentioned Nu 32:16,24,36; 2Sa 7:8; Zep 2:6; Joh 10:1, etc. It was prophesied of the cities of Ammon (Eze 25:5), Aroer (Isa 17:2), and Judaea, that they would be folds or couching-places for flocks. "Among the pots," of the Authorized Version (Ps 68:13), is rightly in the Revised Version, "among the sheepfolds."
Illustration: Sheep-Fold
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Then they approached him and said, "Here's where we're going to build corrals for our cattle and cities for our families,
So after you've built cities for your families and corrals for your cattle, be sure to keep your promises."
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities with corrals for sheep.
When you men lie down among the sheepfolds, you are like the wings of the dove covered with silver, with its feathers in glittering gold."
It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Bedouin will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
The cities of Oraru will be deserted they will be devoted to herds that will lay at rest, and terrorism will be no more.
I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels, and Ammon will become a resting place for flocks of sheep. That's how they'll learn that I am the LORD."'"
The Philistine coast will become meadows for shepherds and sheep pens.
"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.
Morish
The divinely appointed system of Jewish ordinances which formed the enclosure into which the Lord entered by the door, in order to find His own sheep and lead them out. Gentile believers were added to them, and they became one flock (not 'one fold') with one Shepherd, the Lord Himself. Joh 10:1,3,16. There is no longer a fold on earth for those that are Christ's. They are formed into the church, namely, the one flock.
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"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.
It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
I have other sheep that don't belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they'll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.