Thematic Bible: Shearing of

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought like lamb to [the] slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so he did not open his mouth. Verse ConceptsPassover lambBeing BetrayedLambsMutenessRevenge, Examples OfSelf ControlSelf DefenceSheepSilenceSheep ShearingJesus Christ, Meekness OfChrist, Character OfHumility Of ChristPatience, The Nature OfPersecution, Nature OfForbearance Of GodChrist Being SilentThose OppressedChrist Was KilledMessianic Propheciesoppression

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father. Verse ConceptsCriminalsHousehold GodsSheepStealingSuffering, Causes OfSheep ShearingRobbing Gods

{And in the course of time} the daughter of Shua, the wife of Judah, died. When Judah was consoled he went up to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite, to Timnah. And it was told to Tamar, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep." So she removed the clothes of her widowhood and covered [herself] with the veil and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance to Eynayim, which [is] on the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown but she had not been given to him as a wife. read more.
And Judah saw her and reckoned her to [be] a prostitute, for she had covered her face. And he turned aside to her at the roadside and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she [was] his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give to me that you may come in to me?" And he said, "I will send a kid from the goats of the flock." And she said, "[Only] if you give a pledge until you send [it]."