Verse 8

And there were in ye same region shepherdes in the felde by the foldes, and watchinge their flocke by night.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 31:39-40 : 39 Loke what was torne of beastes, I brought it not vnto ye, I was fayne to paie it my self: thou requyredest it of my hande, whether it were stollen fro me by daye or by night. 40 On the daye tyme the heate cosumed me, and the frost on the night, and my slepe departed fro myne eyes.
• Ezek 34:8 : 8 Thus sayeth the LORDE God: As truly as I lyue, for so moch as my shepe are robbed, and deuoured off all the wylde beestes off the felde, hauynge no shepherde: and seynge that my shepherdes take no regarde off my shepe, but fede them selues only, and not my shepe:
• John 10:8-9 : 8 All they that are come before me, are theues and murthures. But ye shepe harkened not vnto them. 9 I am the dore. Yf eny man entre in by me, he shalbe saued, and shal go in and out, and fynde pasture, 10 A thefe cometh not, but for to steale, kyll, and destroye. I am come, yt they might haue life, and haue it more abundauntly. 11 I am a good shepherde. A good shepherde geueth his life for the shepe. 12 But an hyred seruaunt, which is not the shepherde, nether the shepe are his awne, seyth ye wolfe comynge, and leaueth ye shepe, and flyeth. And the wolfe catcheth & scatereth ye shepe.
• Exod 3:1-2 : 1 Moses kepte the shepe of Iethro his father in lawe prest of Madian, & droue the shepe on the backsyde of the wyldernes, and came to the mountayne of God, Horeb. 2 And the angell of ye LORDE appeared vnto him in a flame of fyre out of the bush. And he sawe that ye bush brent wt fyre, and yet was not consumed,
• 1 Sam 17:34-35 : 34 Dauid sayde vnto Saul: Thy seruaunt kepte his fathers shepe, and there came a lyon and a Bere, and caried awaye a shepe from the flocke, 35 then wente I forth after him, and smote him, and delyuered it out of his mouth. And whan he wolde haue bene vpon me, I toke him by his beerde, and smote him, and slewe him.
• Ps 78:70-71 : 70 And there he buylded his temple on hye, and layed ye foundacion of it like ye grounde, that it might perpetually endure. 71 He chose Dauid also his seruaut, and toke him awaye from the shepe foldes.