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Numbers 27:17
who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.”
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Matthew 9:36
When He saw the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were weary and worn out, like sheep without a shepherd.
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1 Kings 22 34-1 Kings 22 36
But a man drew his bow without taking special aim and struck the king of Israel through the joints of his armor. So he said to his charioteer,“ Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded!”The battle raged throughout that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. He died that evening, and blood from his wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.Then the cry rang out in the army as the sun set, declaring: Each man to his own city, and each man to his own land!
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Zechariah 10:2
For the idols speak falsehood, and the diviners see illusions; they relate empty dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.
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Jeremiah 23:1-2
“ Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” This is the Lord’s declaration.“ Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who shepherd My people: You have scattered My flock, banished them, and have not attended to them. I will attend to you because of your evil acts”— this is the Lord’s declaration.
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Ezekiel 1:4
I looked and there was a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire, there was a gleam like amber.
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Ezekiel 34:4-6
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.They were scattered for lack of a shepherd; they became food for all the wild animals when they were scattered.My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the whole face of the earth, and there was no one searching or seeking for them.
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Zechariah 13:7
Sword, awake against My shepherd, against the man who is My associate— this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will also turn My hand against the little ones.
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Jeremiah 1:11-16
Then the word of the Lord came to me, asking,“ What do you see, Jeremiah?” I replied,“ I see a branch of an almond tree.”The Lord said to me,“ You have seen correctly, for I watch over My word to accomplish it.”Again the word of the Lord came to me inquiring,“ What do you see?” And I replied,“ I see a boiling pot, its lip tilted from the north to the south.”Then the Lord said to me,“ Disaster will be poured out from the north on all who live in the land.Indeed, I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north.” This is the Lord’s declaration. They will come, and each king will set up his throne at the entrance to Jerusalem’s gates. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.“ I will pronounce My judgments against them for all the evil they did when they abandoned Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.
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1 Samuel 9 9
Formerly in Israel, a man who was going to inquire of God would say,“ Come, let’s go to the seer,” for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.
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Acts 10:11-17
He saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the earth.In it were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, and the birds of the sky.Then a voice said to him,“ Get up, Peter; kill and eat!”“ No, Lord!” Peter said.“ For I have never eaten anything common and ritually unclean!”Again, a second time, a voice said to him,“ What God has made clean, you must not call common.”This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into heaven.While Peter was deeply perplexed about what the vision he had seen might mean, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions to Simon’s house, stood at the gate.
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Jeremiah 50:6
My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, guiding them the wrong way in the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
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2 Chronicles 18 16-2 Chronicles 18 17
So Micaiah said: I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the Lord said,“ They have no master; let each return home in peace.”So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,“ Didn’t I tell you he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster?”
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Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions. The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria; the last one who crushed his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
