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 came near to him and said, "We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our little ones;
"Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."
and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
When you lie down among the sheepfolds, You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver, And its pinions with glistening gold.
It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
"The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten them.
"I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am the LORD."
So the seacoast will be pastures, With caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.
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, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.
"To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
"I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.