12 Bible Verses about Sheep Shearing

I hear that you are shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.

Two years later, Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

“You must consecrate to the Lord your God every firstborn male produced by your herd and flock. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work or shear the firstborn of your flock.

You are to give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first sheared wool of your flock.

He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet He did not open His mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
He did not open His mouth.

Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so He does not open His mouth.

When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to the sheepshearers.

Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

A man in Maon had a business in Carmel; he was a very rich man with 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats and was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep,

Then he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired sheepshearers. Will the king and his servants please come with your servant?”