Shepherds
Early mention of -- Ge 4:2. Usually carried a scrip or bag -- 1Sa 17:40. Carried a staff or rod -- Le 27:32; Ps 23:4. Dwelt in tents while tending their flocks -- Song 1:8; Isa 38:12. Members of the family both male and female acted as -- Ge 29:6; 1Sa 16:11; 17:15. Had hired keepers under them -- 1Sa 17:20. The unfaithfulness of hireling, alluded to -- Joh 10:12. Care of the sheep by, exhibited in Knowing them. -- Joh 10:14. Going before and leading them. -- Ps 77:20; 78:52; 80:1. Seeking out good pasture for them. -- 1Ch 4:39-41; Ps 23:2. Numbering them when they return from pasture. -- Jer 33:13. Watching over them by night. -- Lu 2:8. Tenderness to the ewes in lamb, and to the young. -- Ge 33:13,14; Ps 78:71. Defending them when attacked by wild beasts. -- 1Sa 17:34-36; Am 3:12. Searching them out when lost and straying. -- Eze 34:12; Lu 15:4,5. Attending them when sick. -- Eze 34:16. An abomination to the Egyptians -- Ge 46:34. Illustrative Of God as leader of Israel. -- Ps 77:20; 80:1. Of Christ as the good shepherd. -- Eze 34:23; Zec 13:7; Joh 10:14; Heb 13:20. Of kings as the leaders of the people. -- Isa 44:28; Jer 6:3; 49:19. Of ministers of the gospel. -- Jer 23:4. (Searching out straying sheep,) of Christ seeking the lost. -- Eze 34:12; Lu 15:2-7. (Their care and tenderness,) of tenderness of Christ. -- Isa 40:11; Eze 34:13-16. (Ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers. -- Isa 56:11; Jer 50:6; Eze 34:2,10; Zec 11:7,8,15-17.