23 Bible Verses about Stock Keeping

And they went near him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our sheep and for our cattle, and cities for our children:

Build your cities for your children and folds for your sheep, and see ye do that ye have spoken."

Bethnimra and Bethharan fenced cities, and they built folds for their sheep.

And unto thee, O thou tower of Eder, thou stronghold of the daughter Zion, unto thee shall it come: even the first lordship and kingdom of the daughter Jerusalem.

Though ye have lain among the sheep-folds, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his cattle; but the ungodly have cruel hearts.

He that goeth in by the door, is the shepherd of the sheep.

See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks.

say, 'Thy servants have been occupied about cattle, from our childhood unto this time: both we and our fathers,' that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen. For an abomination unto the Egyptians are all that feed sheep."

Thus sayeth the LORD, 'like as a herdsman taketh two legs or a piece of an ear out of the lion's mouth: Even so the children of Israel that dwell in Samaria, having their couches in the corner, and the beds at Damascus, shall be plucked away.

And the LORD said unto me, "Take to thee also the staff of a foolish shepherd:

O idle shepherd, that leaveth the flock! The sword shall come upon his arm and upon his right eye. His arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be sore blinded."

Then the herdsmen fled and went their ways into the city, and told everything, and what had fortuned unto them that were possessed of the devils.

When the herdsmen saw what had chanced, they fled, and told it in the city and in the villages.

Who is it, if he had a servant a plowing, or feeding cattle, that would say unto him when he were come from the field, 'Go quickly and sit down to meat.'

Strangers shall stand and feed your cattle, and the Aliens shall be your plowmen and reapers.

And there fell a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. Moreover, the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.

And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." Then called he the well Esek, because they strove with him.

And the shepherds came and drove them away: But Moses stood up and helped them and watered their sheep.

And they answered, "There was an Egyptian that delivered us from the shepherds, and so drew us water and watered the sheep."

For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, "Like as the lion or lion's whelps roareth upon the prey that he hath gotten, and is not afraid though the multitude of shepherds cry out upon him, neither abashed for all the heap of them: So shall the LORD of Hosts come down from the mount Zion, and defend his hill.

Through thee I have scattered the shepherd and his flock, the husbandman and his cattle, the princes and the rulers.

And the shepherds returned, praising and lauding God for all that they had heard and seen, even as it was told unto them.