THEOSISNumbers 27:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.
אֲשֶׁר־יֵצֵ֣א לִפְנֵיהֶ֗ם וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר יָבֹא֙ לִפְנֵיהֶ֔ם וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר יוֹצִיאֵ֖ם וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר יְבִיאֵ֑ם וְלֹ֤א תִהְיֶה֙ עֲדַ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה כַּצֹּ֕אן אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵין־לָהֶ֖ם רֹעֶֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezek 34:5And my sheep were scattered, because there was no shepherd and they became the prey of all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
- Mark 6:34And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.
- Matt 9:36And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd.
- Zech 10:2For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in vain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd.
- Deut 31:2And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath said to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.
- 2 Chr 1:10Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before thy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so great?
- 1 Sam 18:13Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him a captain over a thousand men, and he went out and came in before the people.
- 1 Sam 8:20And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.