Shepherd
Genes*is 46:34 (Genesis 46)
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.”
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Genesis 48:15 (Genesis 48)
And he blessed Joseph and said,
“The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
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Genesis 49:24 (Genesis 49)
yet his bow remained unmoved;
his arms1 were made agile
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob
(from there is the Shepherd,2 the Stone of Israel),
Footnotes
[1] 49:24 Hebrew the arms of his hands
[2] 49:24 Or by the name of the Shepherd
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Numbers 27:17 (Numbers 27)
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.”
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1 Samuel 17:40 (1 Samuel 17)
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.
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2 Samuel 5:2 (2 Samuel 5)
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.’”
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2 Samuel 7:7 (2 Samuel 7)
In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges1 of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’
Footnotes
[1] 7:7 Compare 1 Chronicles 17:6; Hebrew tribes
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1 Kings 22:17 (1 Kings 22)
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.’”
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1 Chronicles 11:2 (1 Chronicles 11)
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.’”
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1 Chronicles 17:6 (1 Chronicles 17)
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?”’
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2 Chronicles 18:16 (2 Chronicles 18)
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.’”
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Psalm 23:1 (Psalm 23)
The Lord Is My Shepherd
A Psalm of David.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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Psalm 28:9 (Psalm 28)
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
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Psalm 49:14 (Psalm 49)
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.
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Psalm 78:71 (Psalm 78)
from following the nursing ewes he brought him
to shepherd Jacob his people,
Israel his inheritance.
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Psalm 80:1 (Psalm 80)
Restore Us, O God
To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm.
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph like a flock!
You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
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Ecclesiastes 12:11 (Ecclesiastes 12)
The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.
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Isaiah 38:12 (Isaiah 38)
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;
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Isaiah 40:11 (Isaiah 40)
He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms;
he will carry them in his bosom,
and gently lead those that are with young.
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Isaiah 44:28 (Isaiah 44)
who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd,
and he shall fulfill all my purpose’;
saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’
and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”
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Jeremiah 17:16 (Jeremiah 17)
I have not run away from being your shepherd,
nor have I desired the day of sickness.
You know what came out of my lips;
it was before your face.
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Jeremiah 22:22 (Jeremiah 22)
The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
and your lovers shall go into captivity;
then you will be ashamed and confounded
because of all your evil.
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Jeremiah 31:10 (Jeremiah 31)
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’
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Jeremiah 43:12 (Jeremiah 43)
I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.
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Jeremiah 49:19 (Jeremiah 49)
Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him1 run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
Footnotes
[1] 49:19 Septuagint, Syriac them
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Jeremiah 50:44 (Jeremiah 50)
“Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
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Jeremiah 51:23 (Jeremiah 51)
with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team;
with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.
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Ezekiel 34:5 (Ezekiel 34)
So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts.
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Ezekiel 34:8 (Ezekiel 34)
As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,
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Ezekiel 34:12 (Ezekiel 34)
As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.
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Ezekiel 34:15 (Ezekiel 34)
I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God.
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Ezekiel 34:23 (Ezekiel 34)
And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
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Ezekiel 37:24 (Ezekiel 37)
“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
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Amos 3:12 (Amos 3)
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 part1 of a bed.
Footnotes
[1] 3:12 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
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Micah 5:4 (Micah 5)
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.
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Micah 5:6 (Micah 5)
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.
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Micah 7:14 (Micah 7)
Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock of your inheritance,
who dwell alone in a forest
in the midst of a garden land;1
let them graze in Bashan and Gilead
as in the days of old.
Footnotes
[1] 7:14 Hebrew of Carmel
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Zechariah 10:2 (Zechariah 10)
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.
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Zechariah 11:4 (Zechariah 11)
Thus said the Lord my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.
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Zechariah 11:7 (Zechariah 11)
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.
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Zechariah 11:9 (Zechariah 11)
So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”
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Zechariah 11:15 (Zechariah 11)
Then the Lord said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
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Zechariah 11:16 (Zechariah 11)
For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
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Zechariah 11:17 (Zechariah 11)
“Woe to my worthless shepherd,
who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
Let his arm be wholly withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!”
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Zechariah 13:7 (Zechariah 13)
The Shepherd Struck
“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
against the man who stands next to me,”
declares the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the little ones.
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Matthew 2:6 (Matthew 2)
“‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
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Matthew 9:36 (Matthew 9)
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
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Matthew 25:32 (Matthew 25)
Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
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Matthew 26:31 (Matthew 26)
Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
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Mark 6:34 (Mark 6)
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
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Mark 14:27 (Mark 14)
And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’
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John 10:2 (John 10)
But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
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John 10:11 (John 10)
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
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John 10:12 (John 10)
He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
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John 10:14 (John 10)
I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
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John 10:16 (John 10)
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
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Hebrews 13:20 (Hebrews 13)
Benediction
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
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1 Peter 2:25 (1 Peter 2)
For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
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1 Peter 5:2 (1 Peter 5)
shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight,1 not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you;2 not for shameful gain, but eagerly;
Footnotes
[1] 5:2 Some manuscripts omit exercising oversight
[2] 5:2 Some manuscripts omit as God would have you
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1 Peter 5:4 (1 Peter 5)
And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
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Revelation 7:17 (Revelation 7)
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of living water,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”