Early Mention Of Genesis 4:2

Usually Carried a Scrip or Bag 1 Samuel 17:40

Carried a Staff or Rod Leviticus 27:32, Psalm 23:4

Dwelt in Tents While Tending Their Flocks Song of Solomon 1:8, Isaiah 38:12

Members of the family both male and female acted as Genesis 29:6, 1 Samuel 16:11, 17:15

Had Hired Keepers under Them 1 Samuel 17:20

The Unfaithfulness of Hireling, Alluded To John 10:12

Care of the Sheep By, Exhibited In

Knowing them John 10:14

Going before and leading them Psalm 77:20, 78:52, 80:1

Seeking out good pasture for them 1 Chronicles 4:39-41, Psalm 23:2

Numbering them when they return from pasture Jeremiah 33:13

Watching over them by night Luke 2:8

Tenderness to the ewes in lamb, and to the young Genesis 33:13, 14, Psalm 78:71

Defending them when attacked by wild beasts 1 Samuel 17:34-36, Amos 3:12

Searching them out when lost and straying Ezekiel 34:12, Luke 15:4, 5

Attending them when sick Ezekiel 34:16

An Abomination to the Egyptians Genesis 46:34

Illustrative

Of God as leader of Israel Psalm 77:20, 80:1

Of Christ as the good shepherd Ezekiel 34:23, Zechariah 13:7, John 10:14, Hebrews 13:20

Of kings as the leaders of the people Isaiah 44:28, Jeremiah 6:3, 49:19

Of ministers of the gospel Jeremiah 23:4

(Searching out straying sheep,) of Christ seeking the lost Ezekiel 34:12, Luke 15:2-7

(Their care and tenderness,) of tenderness of Christ Isaiah 40:11, Ezekiel 34:13-16

(Ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers Isaiah 56:11, Jeremiah 50:6, Ezekiel 34:2, 10, Zechariah 11:7, 8, 15-17