24 Bible Verses about Those Who Kept Stock

Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban's flock.

Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.

These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father.

you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.

And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!"

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.

Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here."

Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep."

but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,

The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I was no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.