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Matthew 2:6
‘ And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, Are by no means least among the leaders of Judah; For from you will come forth a Ruler Who will shepherd My people Israel.’ ”
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Ezekiel 37:24-25
“ And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes and follow them.And they will live on the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and My servant David will be their leader forever.
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Micah 5:4
And He will arise and shepherd His flock In the strength of the Lord, In the majesty of the name of the Lord His God. And they will remain, Because at that time He will be great To the ends of the earth.
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Ezekiel 34:23
“ Then I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.
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2 Samuel 7 7
Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying,‘ Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’ ” ’
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1 Samuel 18 13
So Saul removed him from his presence and appointed him as his commander of a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
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1 Samuel 25 30
And when the Lord does for my lord in accordance with all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and appoints you ruler over Israel,
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Numbers 27:17
who will go out and come in before them, and lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord will not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”
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John 10:11
“ I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
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Isaiah 40:11
Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs And carry them in the fold of His robe; He will gently lead the nursing ewes.
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Isaiah 55:4
Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, A leader and commander for the peoples.
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Psalms 78:70-72
He also chose His servant David And took him from the sheepfolds;From the care of the ewes with nursing lambs He brought him To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance.So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them with his skillful hands.
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1 Samuel 16 1
Now the Lord said to Samuel,“ How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, because I have chosen a king for Myself among his sons.”
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John 10:3-4
To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep listen to his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.When he puts all his own sheep outside, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
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1 Samuel 16 12-1 Samuel 16 13
So he sent word and brought him in. Now he was reddish, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the Lord said,“ Arise, anoint him; for this is he.”So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel set out and went to Ramah.
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1 Samuel 18 16
But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he would go out to battle and return before them.
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2 Kings 20 5
“ Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people,‘ This is what the Lord, the God of your father David says:“ I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I am going to heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
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1 Samuel 18 5
And David went into battle wherever Saul sent him, and always achieved success; so Saul put him in charge of the men of war. And it was pleasing in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
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1 Samuel 13 14
But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”
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1 Samuel 9 16
“ About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him as ruler over My people Israel; and he will save My people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have considered My people, because their outcry has come to Me.”
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Hebrews 2:10
For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.
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1 Samuel 25 28
Please forgive the offense of your slave; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil will not be found in you all your days.