Verse 8

There were in ye same countrey sheepheardes, abydyng in the fielde, & watchyng their flocke by nyght.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 31:39-40 : 39 Whatsoeuer was torne of beastes I brought it not vnto thee, but made it good my selfe: of my hande diddest thou require it that was stolen by day or nyght. 40 I was in suche case, that by day the heate consumed me, and the frost by nyght, and my slepe departed from mine eyes.
• Ezek 34:8 : 8 As truely as I lyue saith the Lorde God, forsomuch as my sheepe are robbed, & deuoured of all the wylde beastes of the fielde, hauing no shepheard, and seeing that my shepheardes seke not my sheepe, but the shepheardes feede them selues, and feede not my sheepe:
• John 10:8-9 : 8 All, euen as many as came before me, are thieues and robbers: but the sheepe dyd not heare them. 9 I am the doore: by me yf any man enter in, he shalbe safe, and shall go in and out, and fynde pasture. 10 A thiefe commeth not, but for to steale, kyll, & to destroy: I am come, that they myght haue lyfe, and that they myght haue it more aboundauntly. 11 I am the good sheephearde. A good sheephearde, geueth his lyfe for the sheepe. 12 An hyrelyng, and he which is not the sheephearde, neither the sheepe are his owne, seeth the wolfe commyng, and leaueth the sheepe, and fleeth, and the wolfe catcheth, & scattereth the sheepe.
• Exod 3:1-2 : 1 Moyses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, priest of Madian: and he droue the flocke to the backesyde of the desert, aud came to the mountayne of God Horeb. 2 And the angell of the Lorde appeared vnto hym in a flambe of fire out of the middes of a busshe: And he loked, and beholde the busshe burned with fire, and the busshe was not consumed.
• 1 Sam 17:34-35 : 34 Dauid aunswered vnto Saul: Thy seruaunt kept his fathers sheepe, & ther came a lion and likewise a beare, and toke a sheepe, out of the flocke: 35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and toke it out of his mouth: And whe he arose against me, I caught him by the bearde, and smote him, and slue him.
• Ps 78:70-71 : 70 He chose also Dauid his seruaunt: and toke hym away from the sheepefoldes. 71 As he was folowing the ewes great with young he toke hym: that he might feede Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritaunce.