41 Bible Verses about Lambs

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2 Samuel 12:4

Now, a visitor came to the rich man. The rich man thought it would be a pity to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler. So he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the traveler.

Deuteronomy 28:4

Jehovah will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.

Amos 6:4

You lie on beds of ivory, and stretch on couches. You eat the the best lambs out of the flock and the fattest calves out of the stall.

Genesis 30:32

Let me go through all of your flocks today and take every speckled and spotted sheep, every black lamb, and every spotted and speckled goat. They will be my wages.

2 Kings 3:4

King Mesha of Moab raised sheep. Yearly he gave as tribute to the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool from one hundred thousand sheep.

Genesis 22:7

Isaac spoke up: Father! He answered: Yes, my son? Isaac asked: I see that you have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?

Exodus 29:38

Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs each day, continuously.

Leviticus 3:7

If your offering is a lamb, you must bring it to Jehovah.

Leviticus 14:12

Then the priest will take one of the male lambs and together with the half pint of oil he will offer it as a repayment offering. He will present them as a special gift to Jehovah for the priest.

1 Samuel 7:9

Samuel killed a young lamb and burned it whole as a sacrifice to Jehovah. Then he prayed to Jehovah to help Israel. Jehovah answered his prayer.

Exodus 12:21

Moses called all the elders of Israel and said: Take lambs according to your families and slay the Passover lamb.

Exodus 12:3

Tell the whole community of Israel: 'On the tenth day of this month each man must take a sheep for his family, one animal per household.

2 Chronicles 30:15-17

They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed of themselves. They consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of Jehovah. They stood in their regular places as instructed by the law of Moses. Moses was a man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood they received from the Levites. Many people in the assembly had not made themselves holy. So the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all who were not clean and could not make their lambs holy for Jehovah.

Ezra 6:20

the priests and the Levites made themselves clean together. They were all clean when they put the Passover lamb to death for all those who had come back, and for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

Luke 22:7

The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

Numbers 6:14

They are to bring these offerings to Jehovah: a one-year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, a one-year-old female lamb as an offering for sin, and a ram as a fellowship offering. All of these animals must have no defects.

Leviticus 4:32

If someone brings a lamb as his offering for sin, he must bring a female that has no defects.

Leviticus 23:12

On the day you present the bundle, you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects as a burnt offering to Jehovah.

Numbers 28:3-4

These are the food offerings that are to be presented to Jehovah: for the daily burnt offering, two one-year-old male lambs without any defects. Offer the first lamb in the morning, and the second in the evening,

Ezekiel 46:4

The prince must offer to Jehovah six lambs that have no defects and one ram that has no defects as a burnt offering on the day of worship.

Leviticus 12:8

If she cannot afford a lamb, she must use two mourning doves or two pigeons. One will be the burnt offering and the other the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her and she will be clean.'

Exodus 34:20

It will cost you a sheep or a goat to buy back the firstborn donkey. If you do not buy it back, then you must break the donkey's neck. You must buy back every firstborn of your sons. No one may come into my presence without an offering.

Psalm 114:4

The mountains jumped like rams. The hills jumped like lambs.

Luke 10:3

Go your way for I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the bull, but dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on my entire holy mountain, Jehovah proclaims.

Jeremiah 11:19

I was like an unquestioning lamb brought to the slaughter. I did not know that they were plotting against me. They were saying: Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we will not be reminded of him anymore.

John 21:15

When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs.

John 1:36

He looked at Jesus as he walked, and said: Behold, the Lamb of God!

1 Peter 1:18-19

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold, but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, even the blood of Christ.

Acts 8:32

The Scripture he read was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer so he did not open his mouth.

Proverbs 27:26

The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats bring the price of the field.

Ezra 7:17

Use this money to buy bulls, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

Genesis 21:28-32

Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. Abimelech asked Abraham: What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves? He said: You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.read more.
Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there the two of them took an oath. They made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Isaiah 5:17

In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture.

Isaiah 11:6

The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the well-fed animal together. A little boy will lead them.

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Lambs » Used for » Sacrifice

2 Chronicles 29:32

They brought seventy bulls, one hundred sheep, and two hundred lambs as burnt offerings for Jehovah.

1 Chronicles 29:21

The following day they killed animals as sacrifices, dedicating them to Jehovah. Then they gave them to the people to eat. In addition, they sacrificed a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, which they burned whole on the altar. They also brought the offerings of wine.

Lambs » Used for » Food

Deuteronomy 32:14

He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes.

2 Samuel 12:4

Now, a visitor came to the rich man. The rich man thought it would be a pity to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler. So he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the traveler.

Lambs » Illustrative » Of any thing dear or cherished

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you disobeyed my commands? Why did you do this evil thing? You had Uriah killed in battle! You let the Ammonites kill him. Then you took his wife!

2 Samuel 12:3

But the poor man had only one little female lamb that he bought. He raised her, and she grew up in his home with his children. She would eat his food and drink from his cup. She rested in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

Lambs » Offered in sacrifice » From the earliest times

Genesis 22:7-8

Isaac spoke up: Father! He answered: Yes, my son? Isaac asked: I see that you have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice? Abraham answered: God will provide one. And the two of them walked on together.

Lambs » The image of, was the first impression of on money

Genesis 33:19

He bought the piece of land on which he pitched his tents. He bought it from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of silver.

Joshua 24:32

The body of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, was buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. Joseph's descendants inherited this land.

Lambs » Offered in sacrifice » At the passover

Exodus 12:3

Tell the whole community of Israel: 'On the tenth day of this month each man must take a sheep for his family, one animal per household.

Exodus 12:6-7

Take care of it until the fourteenth day of this month. Then at dusk, all the assembled people from the community of Israel must slaughter their animals. Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten.

Lambs » The first-born of an ass to be redeemed with

Exodus 13:13

It will cost you a sheep or a goat to buy any firstborn donkey back from Jehovah. You must break the donkey's neck if you do not buy it back. You must also buy every firstborn son back from Jehovah.

Exodus 34:20

It will cost you a sheep or a goat to buy back the firstborn donkey. If you do not buy it back, then you must break the donkey's neck. You must buy back every firstborn of your sons. No one may come into my presence without an offering.

Lambs » The young of the flock

Ezekiel 45:15

You must take one sheep out of every two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. You must sacrifice them with grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make peace with Jehovah,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

Lambs » Offered in sacrifice » At a year old

Numbers 6:14

They are to bring these offerings to Jehovah: a one-year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, a one-year-old female lamb as an offering for sin, and a ram as a fellowship offering. All of these animals must have no defects.

Lambs » Illustrative » Of Christ as a sacrifice

Revelation 5:6

I saw a Lamb that looked as though it had been slain, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders. The lamb had seven horns and seven eyes. These are the seven Spirits of God sent into all the earth.

Lambs » Offered in sacrifice » By the wicked not accepted

Isaiah 66:3

Whoever kills a bull is like someone who kills a person. Whoever sacrifices a lamb is like someone who breaks a dog's neck. Whoever offers a grain sacrifice is like someone who offers pig's blood. Whoever burns incense is like someone who worships an idol. People have certainly chosen their own ways, and they delight in detestable things.

Isaiah 1:11

Jehovah says: What do your many animal sacrifices mean to me? I have had enough of your burnt offerings of rams and enough fat from your fattened calves. I am not pleased with the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats.

Lambs » Illustrative » Of the lord's people

Isaiah 11:6

The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the well-fed animal together. A little boy will lead them.

Isaiah 5:17

In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture.

Lambs » Illustrative » Of weak believers

John 21:15

When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs.

Lambs » Described as » Playful

Psalm 114:4

The mountains jumped like rams. The hills jumped like lambs.

Psalm 114:6

Mountains, what made you jump like rams? Hills, what made you jump like lambs?

Lambs » An extensive commerce in

Ezekiel 27:21

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers for lambs, rams and goats.

Ezra 7:17

Use this money to buy bulls, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

Lambs » Tribute often paid in

2 Kings 3:4

King Mesha of Moab raised sheep. Yearly he gave as tribute to the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool from one hundred thousand sheep.

Isaiah 16:1

Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion.

Lambs » Illustrative » (patience of,) of the patience of Christ

Acts 8:32

The Scripture he read was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer so he did not open his mouth.

Lambs » Numbers of, given by josiah to the people for sacrifice

2 Chronicles 35:7

Josiah donated thirty thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand bulls from his own flocks and herds for the people to offer as sacrifices.

Lambs » Covenants confirmed by gift of

Genesis 21:28-30

Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. Abimelech asked Abraham: What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves? He said: You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.

Lambs » Offered in sacrifice » Every morning » Every evening

Exodus 29:38-39

Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs each day, continuously. Offer one lamb in the morning and offer the other lamb at twilight.

Lambs » Illustrative » (brought to slaughter,) of the wicked under judgments

Jeremiah 51:40

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats.

Lambs » Used for » Clothing

Proverbs 27:26

The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats bring the price of the field.

Lambs » Exposed to danger from wild beasts

1 Samuel 17:34

David replied to Saul: I am a shepherd for my father's sheep. When a lion or a bear comes and carries off a sheep from the flock,

Lambs » Offered in sacrifice » While sucking

1 Samuel 7:9

Samuel killed a young lamb and burned it whole as a sacrifice to Jehovah. Then he prayed to Jehovah to help Israel. Jehovah answered his prayer.

Lambs » Offered in sacrifice » Females

Numbers 6:14

They are to bring these offerings to Jehovah: a one-year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, a one-year-old female lamb as an offering for sin, and a ram as a fellowship offering. All of these animals must have no defects.

Lambs » Illustrative » Of purity of Christ

Lambs » The shepherd's care for

Lambs » Offered in sacrifice » Males

Lambs » Illustrative » (consumed in sacrifice,) of complete destruction of the wicked

Psalm 37:20

But the wicked will perish! The enemies of Jehovah will be like the glory of the pastures. They vanish, like smoke they vanish away.

Lambs » Described as » Patient

Lambs » Illustrative » (deserted and exposed,) of israel deprived of God's protection

Hosea 4:16

For Israel behaved stubbornly like a stubborn heifer. Will Jehovah now feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Lambs » Illustrative » (among wolves,) of ministers among the unGodly

Luke 10:3

Go your way for I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves.

Lambs » Considered a great delicacy

Amos 6:4

You lie on beds of ivory, and stretch on couches. You eat the the best lambs out of the flock and the fattest calves out of the stall.

Righteous » Compared with » Lambs

John 21:15

When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs.

compared to Saints » Lambs

John 21:15

When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs.

Titles and names of saints » Lambs

John 21:15

When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs.

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