23 Bible Verses about Stock Keeping

The tribes of Gad and Reuben came to Moses and said: Allow us to build stone fences for our livestock and cities for our families here.

So build your towns and the enclosures for your sheep, but do what you have promised!

Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran as walled cities. They also built stone fences for their flocks.

You, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, it will come to you. The former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.

A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, but the compassion of the wicked is terrible.

He who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and attend to your herds.

Be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live in the region of Goshen. Joseph said this because Egyptians will have nothing to do with shepherds (consider shepherds loathsome).

Jehovah said: As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so the children of Israel will be rescued. They sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.

Jehovah said: Take yet again the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaves the flock! The sword will be upon his arm, and upon his right eye. His arm will be withered and dried up, and his right eye will be blind.

The herdsmen fled to the city to tell everything that happened to the swine that were possessed with demons.

The herdsmen saw what happened and rushed to the city to tell others.

Let us say you have a servant who is plowing or looking after the sheep. Do you tell him to hurry and eat his meal when he comes in from the field?

Strangers will stand and shepherd your flocks. Foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

Quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac. They said: The water is ours! So he named the well Esek, because they argued with him.

Then the shepherds came and drove them away. Moses stood up and helped them water their flock.

They said: An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds. He drew water for us and watered the flock.

This is what Jehovah said to me: A lion, even a young lion, growls over its prey when a crowd of shepherds is called to fight it. It is not frightened by their voices or disturbed by the noise they make. So Jehovah of Hosts will come to fight for Mount Zion and on its hill.

I will use you to crush shepherds and their flocks. I will use you to crush farmers and their oxen. I will use you to crush governors and officials.

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen.