Sheep
89 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
64 sections
- (In Patience and Simplicity) of Patience, of Christ
- (In Proneness to Wander) of Those Who Depart from God
- (Lost) of the Unregenerate
- (Separation from the Goats) the Separation of Saints
- (When Found) Restored Sinners
- Agile
- Also: Bozrah
- Also: Jacob's Management of
- Also: Kedar
- Also: Nebaioth
- Also: Sharon
- Being Covered with a Fleece
- Bleating of, Alluded To
- Clean and Used As Food
- Constituted a Great Part of Patriarchal Wealth
- False Prophets Assume the Simple Appearance
- Feasting at the Time of Shearing
- Females of, Called Ewes
- Figurative
- First Wool of, Given to the Priests
- Firstlings of, Could not be Dedicated As a Free-Will offering
- Firstlings of, not to be Redeemed
- Firstlings of, not to be Shorn
- Flesh of, Extensively Used As Food
- Flocks of Attended by Members of the Family
- Flocks of Attended by Servants
- Flocks of Conducted to the Richest Pastures
- Flocks of Fed in the Valleys
- Flocks of Fed on the Mountains
- Flocks of Fled from Strangers
- Flocks of Followed the Shepherd
- Flocks of Frequently Covered the Pastures
- Flocks of Guarded by Dogs
- Flocks of Kept in Folds or Cotes
- Flocks of Made to Rest at Noon
- Flocks of Watered Every Day
- Innocent
- Males of Called Rams
- Milk of, Used As Food
- Milk of, Used for Food
- Offered in Sacrifice by Abel
- Offered in Sacrifice by Abraham
- Offered in Sacrifice by Noah
- Offered in Sacrifice from the Earliest Age
- Offered in Sacrifice Under the Law
- Parable of the Lost
- Places Celebrated For: Bashan
- Places Celebrated For: Bozrah
- Places Celebrated For: Kedar
- Places Celebrated For: Nebaioth
- Remarkably Prolific
- Sagacious
- Shearing of
- Skins of, Made Into a Covering for the Tabernacle
- Skins of, Worn As Clothing by the Poor
- The First Fleece of, Belonged to the Priests and the Levites
- The Land of Bashan Adapted to the Raising of
- Time of Shearing, a Time of Rejoicing
- Tithe of, Given to the Levites
- Tribute (Taxes) Paid In
- Under Man's Care from the Earliest Age
- Washed and Shorn Every Year
- Wool of, Made Into Clothing
- Young of, Called Lambs
(In Patience and Simplicity) of Patience, of Christ
- Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
(In Proneness to Wander) of Those Who Depart from God
- Psalm 119:176 I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
- Isaiah 53:6 We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- Ezekiel 34:16 I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
(Lost) of the Unregenerate
- Matthew 10:6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.
(Separation from the Goats) the Separation of Saints
- Matthew 25:32–33 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. …
(When Found) Restored Sinners
Agile
- Psalm 114:4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- Psalm 114:6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
Also: Bozrah
- Micah 2:12 I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture — a noisy throng.
Also: Jacob's Management of
- Genesis 30:32–40 Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages. …
Also: Kedar
- Ezekiel 27:21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.
Also: Nebaioth
- Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house.
Also: Sharon
- Isaiah 65:10 Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for My people who seek Me.
Being Covered with a Fleece
- Job 31:20 if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
Bleating of, Alluded To
- Judges 5:16 Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.
- 1 Samuel 15:14 But Samuel replied, “Then what is this bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle that I hear?”
Clean and Used As Food
- Deuteronomy 14:4 These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
Constituted a Great Part of Patriarchal Wealth
- Genesis 13:5 Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
- Genesis 24:25 Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
- Genesis 26:14 He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
False Prophets Assume the Simple Appearance
- Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Feasting at the Time of Shearing
- 1 Samuel 25:11 Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
- 1 Samuel 25:36 When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
- 2 Samuel 13:23 Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
Females of, Called Ewes
- Psalm 78:71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
Figurative
- 1 Chronicles 21:17 And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s …
- Psalm 74:1 Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
- Jeremiah 13:20 Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?
First Wool of, Given to the Priests
- Deuteronomy 18:4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
Firstlings of, Could not be Dedicated As a Free-Will offering
- Leviticus 27:26 But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
Firstlings of, not to be Redeemed
- Numbers 18:17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to splatter their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Firstlings of, not to be Shorn
- Deuteronomy 15:19 You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.
Flesh of, Extensively Used As Food
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- 1 Kings 1:19 And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he has not invited your servant Solomon.
- 1 Kings 4:23 ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
- Nehemiah 5:18 Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the …
- Isaiah 22:13 But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
Flocks of Attended by Members of the Family
- Genesis 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
- Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
- 1 Samuel 16:11 And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
Flocks of Attended by Servants
- 1 Samuel 17:20 So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
- Isaiah 61:5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
Flocks of Conducted to the Richest Pastures
- Psalm 23:2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
Flocks of Fed in the Valleys
- Isaiah 65:10 Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for My people who seek Me.
Flocks of Fed on the Mountains
- Exodus 3:1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Ezekiel 34:6 My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’
- Ezekiel 34:13 I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the settlements of the land.
Flocks of Fled from Strangers
- John 10:5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him because they do not recognize his voice.”
Flocks of Followed the Shepherd
- John 10:4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
- John 10:27 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
Flocks of Frequently Covered the Pastures
- Psalm 65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.
Flocks of Guarded by Dogs
- Job 30:1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
Flocks of Kept in Folds or Cotes
- 1 Samuel 24:3 Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
- 2 Samuel 7:8 Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
- John 10:1 “Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
Flocks of Made to Rest at Noon
- Psalm 23:2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
- Song of Solomon 1:7 Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
Flocks of Watered Every Day
- Genesis 29:8–10 But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.” …
- Exodus 2:16–17 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. …
Innocent
- 2 Samuel 24:17 When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
Males of Called Rams
- 1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
- Jeremiah 51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Milk of, Used As Food
- Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
- Isaiah 7:21–22 On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep, …
- 1 Corinthians 9:7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
Milk of, Used for Food
- Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
Offered in Sacrifice by Abel
- Genesis 4:4 while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
Offered in Sacrifice by Abraham
- Genesis 22:13 Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
Offered in Sacrifice by Noah
- Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Offered in Sacrifice from the Earliest Age
- Genesis 4:4 while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
- Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- Genesis 15:9–10 And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.” …
Offered in Sacrifice Under the Law
- Exodus 20:24 You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
- Leviticus 1:10 If, however, one’s offering is a burnt offering from the flock — from the sheep or goats — he is to present an unblemished male.
- 1 Kings 8:5 There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
- 1 Kings 8:63 And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
Parable of the Lost
- Matthew 18:11–13
- Luke 15:4–7 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? …
Places Celebrated For: Bashan
- Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
Places Celebrated For: Bozrah
- Micah 2:12 I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture — a noisy throng.
Places Celebrated For: Kedar
- Ezekiel 27:21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.
Places Celebrated For: Nebaioth
- Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house.
Remarkably Prolific
- Psalm 107:41 But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
- Psalm 144:13 Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
- Song of Solomon 4:2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
- Ezekiel 36:37 This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.
Sagacious
- John 10:4–5 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. …
Shearing of
- Genesis 31:19 Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
- Genesis 38:12–17 After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah. …
- Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
Skins of, Made Into a Covering for the Tabernacle
- Exodus 25:5 ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;
- Exodus 36:10 And he joined five of the curtains together, and the other five he joined as well.
- Exodus 39:34 the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering;
Skins of, Worn As Clothing by the Poor
- Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
The First Fleece of, Belonged to the Priests and the Levites
- Deuteronomy 18:4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
The Land of Bashan Adapted to the Raising of
- Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
Time of Shearing, a Time of Rejoicing
- 1 Samuel 25:2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:11 Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
- 1 Samuel 25:36 When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
- 2 Samuel 13:23 Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
Tithe of, Given to the Levites
- 2 Chronicles 31:4–6 Moreover, he commanded the people living in Jerusalem to make a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD. …
Tribute (Taxes) Paid In
- 2 Kings 3:4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
- 1 Chronicles 5:21 They seized the livestock of the Hagrites— 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took 100,000 captives,
- 2 Chronicles 17:11 Some Philistines also brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat, and the Arabs brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats from their flocks.
Under Man's Care from the Earliest Age
- Genesis 4:4 while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
Washed and Shorn Every Year
- Song of Solomon 4:2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
Wool of, Made Into Clothing
- Job 31:20 if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
- Proverbs 31:13 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
- Ezekiel 34:3 You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.
Young of, Called Lambs
- Exodus 12:3 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.
- Isaiah 11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.