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Genesis 4:2

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

Genesis 13:7

and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.

Genesis 13:8

Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.

Genesis 26:20

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Genesis 29:7

He said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them.”

Exodus 2:17

The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.

Exodus 2:19

They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

Exodus 3:1

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.

Exodus 34:3

No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.”

Numbers 14:33

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.

Numbers 27:17

who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.”

Judges 14:20

And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

1 Samuel 16:11

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…

1 Samuel 17:15

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

1 Samuel 17:34

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,

1 Samuel 17:40

Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.

1 Samuel 21:7

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.

1 Samuel 25:7

I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

2 Samuel 5:2

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”

2 Samuel 7:7

In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’

2 Samuel 24:17

Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and…

1 Kings 22:17

And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”

2 Kings 10:12

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

1 Chronicles 11:2

In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”

1 Chronicles 17:6

In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’

1 Chronicles 21:17

And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and…

1 Chronicles 27:29

Over the herds that pastured in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.

2 Chronicles 18:16

And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”

Job 1:14

and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Job 24:2

Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

Job 24:21

“They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow.

Psalm 23:1

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Psalm 28:9

Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.

Psalm 37:3

Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.

Psalm 78:71

from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.

Psalm 78:72

With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.

Psalm 80:1

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

Psalm 80:13

The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 13:20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 15:14

The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

Proverbs 28:7

The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Proverbs 29:3

He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.

Song of Solomon 1:7

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?

Song of Solomon 1:8

If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

Song of Solomon 2:16

My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 4:5

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 6:2

My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies.

Song of Solomon 6:3

I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.

Isaiah 5:17

Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 11:7

The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Isaiah 13:20

It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

Isaiah 14:30

And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant it will slay.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches.

Isaiah 30:23

And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,

Isaiah 31:4

For thus the LORD said to me, “As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called out against him he is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the LORD of hosts…

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 2:16

Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.

Jeremiah 3:15

“‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Jeremiah 6:3

Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds are stupid and do not inquire of the LORD; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Ezekiel 34:2

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the…

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.

Ezekiel 34:5

So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered;

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the LORD now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Hosea 9:2

Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Amos 1:2

And he said: “The LORD roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.”

Amos 3:12

Thus says the LORD: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.

Jonah 3:7

And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,

Micah 5:4

And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.

Micah 5:5

And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;

Micah 5:6

they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.

Micah 7:14

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

Nahum 3:18

Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.

Zephaniah 2:6

And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Zephaniah 2:7

The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the LORD their God will be mindful of them and…

Zephaniah 3:13

those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”

Zechariah 10:2

For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

Zechariah 10:3

“My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.

Zechariah 11:3

The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

Zechariah 11:4

Thus said the LORD my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.

Zechariah 11:5

Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.

Zechariah 11:7

So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.