Biblical Concept: Shepherd
Findings
“The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
Bethlehem, Judah:
“out of you shall come forth a Ruler, Who will
shepherd My people Israel”
Multitudes: “like
sheep without a shepherd”
Jesus Shepherd:
“He began to teach them many things”
11 "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd
lays down His life for the sheep.
Jesus: “I am the
good shepherd”
Jesus to Peter:
“Shepherd My sheep.”
“overseers, to shepherd the church of God”
God: “the great
Shepherd of the sheep”
“Shepherd and
Guardian of your souls”
Elders: “shepherd
the flock of God among you”
Jesus: “Chief
Shepherd”
“the Lamb in the center of the throne shall be their
shepherd”
Jeremiah 3:15 "Then I will
give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and
understanding.
“the shepherds have become stupid And have not sought the
LORD”
“My people have
become lost sheep; Their shepherds have led them astray.”
7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the
LORD:
“Thus says the
Lord God, "Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I shall demand My sheep
from them”
Luke 2:8 And in the same region
there were some shepherds staying out
in the fields, and keeping watch
over their flock by night.
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Shepherd
NAS Genesis
46:34 that you shall say, 'Your
servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we
and our fathers,' that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd
is loathsome to the Egyptians."
15 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 to this day,
NAS Genesis
49:24 But his bow remained firm, And his arms were agile, From the hands of the Mighty One of
Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
NAS Numbers
27:17 who will go out and come in
before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, that the
congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd."
NAS 2 Samuel
5:2 "Previously, when Saul
was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and in. And the LORD said
to you, 'You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be a ruler over
Israel.'"
NAS 2 Samuel
7:7 "Wherever I have gone
with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of
Israel, which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, 'Why have you
not built Me a house of cedar?'"'
NAS 1 Kings
22:17 So he said, "I saw all
Israel Scattered on the mountains, Like sheep which
have no shepherd. And the LORD said, 'These have no master. Let each of them
return to his house in peace.'"
NAS 1
Chronicles 11:2 "In times
past, even when Saul was king, you were the
one who led out and brought in Israel; and the LORD your God said to you, 'You
shall shepherd My people Israel, and you shall be prince over My people
Israel.'"
NAS 1
Chronicles 17:6 "In all
places where I have walked with all Israel, have I spoken a word with any of
the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, 'Why have
you not built for Me a house of cedar?'"'
NAS 2
Chronicles 18:16 So he said,
"I saw all Israel Scattered on the mountains, Like
sheep which have no shepherd; And the LORD said, 'These have no master. Let
each of them return to his house in peace.'"
NAS Psalm
23:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. (“The
LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.”)
NAS Psalm
28:9 Save Thy people, and bless
Thine inheritance; Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.
NAS Psalm
49:14 As sheep they are appointed
for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the
upright shall rule over them in the morning; And their form shall be for Sheol to consume, So that they
have no habitation.
NAS Psalm
78:71 From the care of the ewes
with suckling lambs He brought him, To shepherd Jacob
His people, And Israel His inheritance.
NAS Psalm
80:1 For the choir director; set to El Shoshannim; Eduth.
A Psalm of Asaph. Oh, give ear, Shepherd of Israel, Thou
who dost lead Joseph like a flock; Thou who art enthroned above the cherubim, shine forth!
NAS Ecclesiastes
12:11 The words of wise men are
like goads, and masters of these collections
are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.
NAS Isaiah
40:11 Like a shepherd He will
tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs, And
carry them in His bosom; He will
gently lead the nursing ewes.
NAS Isaiah
44:28 "It is I who says of Cyrus, 'He
is My shepherd! And he will perform all My desire.' And he declares of
Jerusalem, 'She will be built,' And of the temple, 'Your foundation will be
laid.'"
NAS Jeremiah
17:16 But as for me, I have not
hurried away from being a shepherd
after Thee, Nor have I longed for the woeful day; Thou
Thyself knowest the utterance of my lips Was in Thy
presence.
NAS Jeremiah
31:10 Hear the word of the LORD,
O nations, And declare in the coastlands afar off, And
say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him, And keep him as a shepherd
keeps his flock."
NAS Jeremiah
43:12 "And I shall set fire
to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them
captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of
Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from
there safely.
NAS Jeremiah
49:19 "Behold, one will come
up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered
pasture; for in an instant I shall make him run away
from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and
who will summon Me into court? And
who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?"
NAS Jeremiah
50:44 "Behold, one will come
up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan to a perennially watered pasture;
for in an instant I shall make them run away from it,
and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will
summon Me into court? And who then is
the shepherd who can stand before Me?"
NAS Jeremiah
51:23 And with you I shatter the
shepherd and his flock, And with you I shatter the
farmer and his team, And with you I shatter governors and prefects.
NAS Ezekiel
34:5 "And they were
scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every beast of the
field and were scattered.
8 "As I live," declares
the Lord God, "surely because My flock has become a prey, My flock has even become food for all the beasts of the
field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but
rather the shepherds fed themselves
and did not feed My flock;
12 "As a shepherd
cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I
will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they
were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.
23 "Then I will set over them
one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them;
he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.
NAS Ezekiel
37:24 "And My servant David
will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk
in My ordinances, and keep My statutes, and observe them.
NAS Amos
3:12 Thus says the LORD,
"Just as the shepherd snatches from the lion's mouth a couple of legs or a
piece of an ear, So will the sons of Israel dwelling
in Samaria be snatched away-- With the corner
of a bed and the cover of a couch!
NAS Micah
5:4 And He will arise and
shepherd His flock In
the strength of the LORD, In the majesty of the name of the LORD His God. And
they will remain, Because at that time He will be
great To the ends of the earth.
6 And they will shepherd the land
of Assyria with the sword, The land of Nimrod at its entrances; And He will
deliver us from the Assyrian When he
attacks our land And when he tramples our territory.
NAS Micah
7:14 Shepherd Thy people with Thy
scepter, The flock of Thy possession Which dwells by
itself in the woodland, In the midst of a fruitful field. Let them feed in
Bashan and Gilead As in the days of old.
NAS Zechariah
10:2 For the teraphim speak
iniquity, And the diviners see lying visions, And tell
false dreams; They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep, They are afflicted,
because there is no shepherd.
NAS Zechariah
11:15 And the LORD said to me,
"Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
16 "For behold, I am going to
raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the
scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the
flesh of the fat sheep and tear off
their hoofs.
17 "Woe to the worthless
shepherd Who leaves the flock! A sword will be on his arm And
on his right eye! His arm will be totally withered, And
his right eye will be blind."
NAS Zechariah
13:7 "Awake, O sword,
against My Shepherd, And against the man, My
Associate," Declares the LORD of hosts. "Strike the Shepherd that the
sheep may be scattered; And I will turn My hand against the little ones.
NAS Matthew
2:6 'And you, Bethlehem, land of
Judah, Are by no means least among the leaders of
Judah; For out of you shall come forth a Ruler, Who will shepherd My people
Israel.'" (Bethlehem, Judah: “out of you shall come forth a Ruler, Who will shepherd My people Israel”)
NAS Matthew
9:36 And seeing the multitudes,
He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like
sheep without a shepherd. (Multitudes: “like sheep without a shepherd”)
NAS Matthew
25:32 "And all the nations
will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the
shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;
NAS Matthew
26:31 Then Jesus said to them,
"You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, 'I
will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.'
NAS Mark
6:34 And when He went ashore, He
saw a great multitude, and He felt compassion for them because they were like
sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things. (Jesus
Shepherd: “He began to teach them many things”)
NAS Mark
14:27 And Jesus said to them,
"You will all fall away, because it is written, 'I will strike down the
shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.'
NAS John
10:2 "But he who enters by
the door is a shepherd of the sheep.
11 "I am the good shepherd;
the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. (All)
12 "He who is a hireling, and
not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, beholds the wolf coming, and
leaves the sheep, and flees, and the wolf snatches them, and scatters them.
14 "I am the good shepherd;
and I know My own, and My own know Me, (Jesus: “I am
the good shepherd”)
16 "And I have other sheep,
which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they shall hear My
voice; and they shall become one flock with
one shepherd.
NAS John
21:16 He said to him again a
second time, "Simon, son of
John, do you love Me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I
love You." He said to him, "Shepherd My sheep." (Jesus to Peter:
“Shepherd My sheep.”)
NAS Acts
20:28 "Be on guard for
yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you
overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
(“overseers, to shepherd the church of God”)
NAS Hebrews
13:20 Now the God of peace, who
brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of
the eternal covenant, even Jesus our
Lord, (God: “the great Shepherd of the sheep”)
NAS 1 Peter
2:25 For you were continually
straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of
your souls. (“Shepherd and Guardian of your souls”)
NAS 1 Peter
5:2 shepherd the flock of God
among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily,
according to the will of God; and not
for sordid gain, but with eagerness; (Elders: “shepherd the flock of God among
you”)
4 And when the Chief Shepherd
appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. (Jesus: “Chief
Shepherd”)
NAS Revelation
7:17 for the Lamb in the center
of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them to springs of the
water of life; and God shall wipe every tear from their eyes." (“the Lamb
in the center of the throne shall be their shepherd”)
Shepherds
NAS Genesis
46:32 and the men are shepherds,
for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and
their herds and all that they have.'
NAS Genesis
47:3 Then Pharaoh said to his
brothers, "What is your occupation?" So they
said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we and our
fathers."
NAS Exodus
2:17 Then the shepherds came and
drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
19 So they said, "An Egyptian
delivered us from the hand of the shepherds; and what is more, he even drew the
water for us and watered the flock."
NAS Numbers
14:33 'And your sons shall be
shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they shall suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your
corpses lie in the wilderness.
NAS 1 Samuel
21:7 Now one of the servants of
Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the
Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds.
NAS 1 Samuel
25:7 'And now I have heard that
you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us and we have not
insulted them, nor have they missed anything all the days they were in Carmel.
NAS 2 Kings
10:12 Then he arose and departed,
and went to Samaria. On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds,
NAS Song of
Solomon 1:8 "If you yourself
do not know, Most beautiful among women, Go forth on
the trail of the flock, And pasture your young goats By the tents of the
shepherds.
NAS Isaiah
13:20 It will never be inhabited
or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor
will shepherds make their flocks lie
down there.
NAS Isaiah
31:4 For thus says the LORD to
me, "As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey, Against which a band of shepherds is called out, Will not be
terrified at their voice, nor disturbed at their noise, So will the LORD of
hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill."
NAS Isaiah
56:11 And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied. And they are shepherds who
have no understanding; They have all turned to their own way, Each one to his
unjust gain, to the last one.
NAS Isaiah
63:11 Then His people remembered
the days of old, of Moses. Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with
the shepherds of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of
them,
NAS Jeremiah
3:15 "Then I will give you
shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.
(All)
NAS Jeremiah
6:3 "Shepherds and their
flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will
pasture each in his place.
NAS Jeremiah
10:21 For the shepherds have
become stupid And have not sought the LORD; Therefore
they have not prospered, And all their flock is scattered. (“the shepherds have
become stupid And have not sought the LORD”)
NAS Jeremiah
12:10 "Many shepherds have
ruined My vineyard, They have trampled down My field;
They have made My pleasant field A desolate wilderness.
NAS Jeremiah
22:22 "The wind will sweep
away all your shepherds, And your lovers will go into
captivity; Then you will surely be ashamed and humiliated Because of all your
wickedness.
NAS Jeremiah
23:1 "Woe to the shepherds
who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!" declares the
LORD.
2 Therefore thus says the LORD God
of Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My people: "You have
scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold,
I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds," declares the
LORD.
4 "I shall also raise up
shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any
longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing," declares the LORD.
NAS Jeremiah
25:34 "Wail, you shepherds,
and cry; And wallow in ashes, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and
your dispersions have come, And you shall fall like a choice vessel.
35 "Flight shall perish from
the shepherds, And escape from the masters of the flock.
36 "Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds, And the wailing of the
masters of the flock! For the LORD is destroying their pasture,
NAS Jeremiah
33:12 "Thus says the LORD of
hosts, 'There shall again be in this place which is waste, without man or
beast, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds who rest their flocks.
NAS Jeremiah
50:6 "My people have become
lost sheep; Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn
aside on the mountains; They have
gone along from mountain to hill And have forgotten
their resting place. (“My people have become lost sheep; Their shepherds have
led them astray.”)
NAS Ezekiel
34:2 "Son of man, prophesy
against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, 'Thus
says the Lord God, "Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding
themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?
7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear
the word of the LORD: (All)
8 "As I live," declares
the Lord God, "surely because My flock has become a prey, My flock has even become food for all the beasts of the
field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but
rather the shepherds fed themselves
and did not feed My flock;
9 therefore, you shepherds, hear
the word of the LORD:
10 'Thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I shall demand My sheep from them
and make them cease from feeding sheep. So the
shepherds will not feed themselves anymore, but I shall deliver My flock from
their mouth, that they may not be food for them."'" (“Thus says the
Lord God, "Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I shall demand My sheep
from them”)
NAS Micah
5:5 And this One will be our peace. When the Assyrian invades our
land, When he tramples on our citadels, Then we will
raise against him Seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.
NAS Nahum
3:18 Your shepherds are sleeping,
O king of Assyria; Your nobles are lying down. Your people are scattered on the
mountains, And there is no one to regather them.
NAS Zephaniah
2:6 So the seacoast will be
pastures, With caves for shepherds
and folds for flocks.
NAS Zechariah
10:3 "My anger is kindled
against the shepherds, And I will punish the male goats; For the LORD of hosts
has visited His flock, the house of Judah, And will
make them like His majestic horse in battle.
NAS Zechariah
11:5 "Those who buy them
slay them and go unpunished, and each of those
who sell them says, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I have become rich!' And their
own shepherds have no pity on them.
8 Then I annihilated the three
shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul
also was weary of me.
NAS Luke 2:8 And in the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the
fields, and keeping watch over their flock by night. (All)
15 And it came about when the
angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds began saying to one another, "Let
us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which
the Lord has made known to us."
18 And all who heard it wondered at
the things which were told them by the shepherds.
20 And the shepherds went back,
glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as had
been told them.