Luke 2:8 Cross References

Luke 2:8

8: That night some shepherds were in the fields outside the village, guarding their flocks of sheep.

Genesis 31:39

  1. If any were attacked and killed by wild animals, did I show them to you and ask you to reduce the count of your flock? No, I took the loss! You made me pay for every animal stolen from the flocks, whether the loss was my fault or not.
  2. I worked for you through the scorching heat of the day and through cold and sleepless nights.

Ezekiel 34:8

  1. As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, you abandoned my flock and left them to be attacked by every wild animal. Though you were my shepherds, you didn't search for my sheep when they were lost. You took care of yourselves and left the sheep to starve.

1 Samuel 17:34

  1. But David persisted. "I have been taking care of my father's sheep," he said. "When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock,
  2. I go after it with a club and take the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death.

John 10:8

  1. "All others who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them.
  2. Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. Wherever they go, they will find green pastures.
  3. The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness.
  4. "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  5. A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will leave the sheep because they aren't his and he isn't their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.

Psalms 78:70

  1. He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.
  2. He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob's descendants--God's own people, Israel.

Exodus 3:1

  1. One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he went deep into the wilderness near Sinai, the mountain of God.
  2. Suddenly, the angel of the LORD appeared to him as a blazing fire in a bush. Moses was amazed because the bush was engulfed in flames, but it didn't burn up.
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