Bible Cross References
with the sheep
1 Samuel 16:11
Then he asked him, "Do you have any more sons?" Jesse answered, "There is still the youngest, but he is out taking care of the sheep." "Tell him to come here," Samuel said. "We won't offer the sacrifice until he comes."
1 Samuel 17:15
David would go back to Bethlehem from time to time, to take care of his father's sheep.
1 Samuel 17:33
"No," answered Saul. "How could you fight him? You're just a boy, and he has been a soldier all his life!"
1 Samuel 17:34
"Your Majesty," David said, "I take care of my father's sheep. Any time a lion or a bear carries off a lamb,
Exodus 3:1-10
1
One day while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came to Sinai, the holy mountain.
2
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him as a flame coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up.
3
"This is strange," he thought. "Why isn't the bush burning up? I will go closer and see."
4
When the LORD saw that Moses was coming closer, he called to him from the middle of the bush and said, "Moses! Moses!" He answered, "Yes, here I am."
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God said, "Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground.
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I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." So Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7
Then the LORD said, "I have seen how cruelly my people are being treated in Egypt; I have heard them cry out to be rescued from their slave drivers. I know all about their sufferings,
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and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live.
9
I have indeed heard the cry of my people, and I see how the Egyptians are oppressing them.
10
Now I am sending you to the king of Egypt so that you can lead my people out of his country."
1 Kings 19:19
Elijah left and found Elisha plowing with a team of oxen; there were eleven teams ahead of him, and he was plowing with the last one. Elijah took off his cloak and put it on Elisha.
Psalm 78:70-72
70
He chose his servant David; he took him from the pastures,
71
where he looked after his flocks, and he made him king of Israel, the shepherd of the people of God.
72
David took care of them with unselfish devotion and led them with skill.
Psalm 113:8
and makes them companions of princes, the princes of his people.
Amos 1:1
These are the words of Amos, a shepherd from the town of Tekoa. Two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel, God revealed to Amos all these things about Israel.
Amos 7:14
Amos answered, "I am not the kind of prophet who prophesies for pay. I am a herdsman, and I take care of fig trees.
Amos 7:15
But the LORD took me from my work as a shepherd and ordered me to come and prophesy to his people Israel.
Matthew 4:18-22
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As Jesus walked along the shore of Lake Galilee, he saw two brothers who were fishermen, Simon (called Peter) and his brother Andrew, catching fish in the lake with a net.
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Jesus said to them, "Come with me, and I will teach you to catch people."
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At once they left their nets and went with him.
21
He went on and saw two other brothers, James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in their boat with their father Zebedee, getting their nets ready. Jesus called them,
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and at once they left the boat and their father, and went with him.