Luke 2:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

And there were in the same countrey shepheards, abiding in the fielde, and keeping watch by night ouer their flocke.

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  • Gen 31:39-40 : 39 Whatsoeuer was torne of beasts, I brought it not vnto thee, but made it good my selfe: of mine hand diddest thou require it, were it stollen by day or stollen by night. 40 I was in the day consumed with heate, and with frost in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine eyes.
  • Ezek 34:8 : 8 As I liue, sayeth the Lorde God, surely because my flocke was spoyled, and my sheepe were deuoured of all the beasts of the fielde, hauing no shepherde, neither did my shepherdes seeke my sheepe, but the shepherdes fedde them selues, and fedde not my sheepe,
  • John 10:8-9 : 8 All, that euer came before me, are theeues and robbers: but the sheepe did not heare them. 9 I am that doore: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saued, and shall go in, and go out, and finde pasture. 10 The theefe commeth not, but for to steale, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might haue life, and haue it in abundance. 11 I am that good shepheard: that good shepheard giueth his life for his sheepe. 12 But an hireling, and hee which is not the shepheard, neither the sheepe are his owne, seeth the wolfe comming, and hee leaueth the sheepe, and fleeth, and the wolfe catcheth them, and scattreth the sheepe.
  • Exod 3:1-2 : 1 When Moses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, Priest of Midian, & droue the flocke to the backe side of the desert, and came to the Mountaine of God, Horeb, 2 Then the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him in a flame of fire, out of the middes of a bush: and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
  • 1 Sam 17:34-35 : 34 And Dauid answered vnto Saul, Thy seruant kept his fathers sheepe, and there came a lyon, and likewise a beare, and tooke a sheepe out of the flocke, 35 And I went out after him and smote him, and tooke it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard, and smote him, and slue him.
  • Ps 78:70-71 : 70 He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds. 71 Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.

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  • Luke 2:9-20
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    85%

    9And loe, the Angel of the Lord came vpon them, and the glorie of the Lord shone about them, and they were sore afraide.

    10Then the Angel saide vnto them, Be not afraid: for behold, I bring you glad tidings of great ioy, that shalbe to all the people,

    11That is, that vnto you is borne this day in the citie of Dauid, a Sauiour, which is Christ the Lorde.

    12And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch.

    13And straightway there was with the Angel a multitude of heauenly souldiers, praising God, and saying,

    14Glory be to God in the high heauens, and peace in earth, and towards men good will.

    15And it came to passe whe the Angels were gone away from them into heauen, that the shepheards sayde one to another, Let vs goe then vnto Beth-leem, and see this thing that is come to passe which the Lord hath shewed vnto vs.

    16So they came with haste, and founde both Marie and Ioseph, & the babe laid in the cratch.

    17And when they had seene it, they published abroade the thing, that was tolde them of that childe.

    18And all that heard it, wondred at ye things which were tolde them of the shepheards.

    19But Mary kept all those sayings, and pondred them in her heart.

    20And the shepheardes returned glorifiyng and praising God, for all that they had heard and seene as it was spoken vnto them.

  • Luke 2:4-7
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    4And Ioseph also went vp from Galile out of a citie called Nazareth, into Iudea, vnto the citie of Dauid, which is called Beth-leem (because he was of the house and linage of Dauid,)

    5To bee taxed with Marie that was giuen him to wife, which was with childe.

    6And so it was, that while they were there, the daies were accomplished that shee shoulde be deliuered,

    7And she brought foorth her first begotten sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laide him in a cratch, because there was no roome for them in the ynne.

  • Matt 2:1-14
    14 verses
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    1When Iesvs then was borne at Bethleem in Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the King, beholde, there came Wisemen from the East to Hierusalem,

    2Saying, Where is that King of the Iewes that is borne? For wee haue seene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him.

    3When King Herod heard this, he was troubled, and all Hierusalem with him.

    4And gathering together all the chiefe Priestes and Scribes of the people, hee asked of them, where Christ should be borne.

    5And they saide vnto him, At Beth-leem in Iudea: for so it is written by the Prophet,

    6And thou Beth-leem in the lande of Iuda, art not the least among the Princes of Iuda: For out of thee shall come the gouernour that shall feede that my people Israel.

    7Then Herod priuily called the Wisemen, and diligently inquired of them the time of the starre that appeared,

    8And sent them to Beth-leem, saying, Goe, and searche diligently for the babe: and when ye haue founde him, bring mee worde againe, that I may come also, and worship him.

    9So when they had heard the King, they departed: and loe, the starre which they had seene in the East, went before them, till it came and stoode ouer the place where the babe was.

    10And when they sawe the starre, they reioyced with an exceeding great ioy,

    11And went into the house, and founde the babe with Mary his mother, and fell downe, and worshipped him, and opened their treasures, and presented vnto him giftes, euen golde, and frankincense, and myrrhe.

    12And after they were warned of God in a dreame, that they should not go againe to Herod, ther returned into their countrey another way.

    13After their departture, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Ioseph in a dreame, saying, Arise, and take the babe & his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there til I bring thee word: for Herod will seeke the babe, to destroy him.

    14So he arose and tooke the babe and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,

  • Jer 6:3
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    3The pastors with their flockes shall come vnto her: they shall pitche their tentes rounde about by her, & euery one shal feede in his place.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
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    16They were as a wall vnto vs both by night & by day, all the while we were with them keeping sheepe.

  • Matt 1:22-23
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    22And al this was done that it might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by ye Prophet, saying,

    23Behold, a virgine shalbe with childe, and shall beare a sonne, & they shal call his name Emmanuel, which is by interpretation, God with vs.

  • Matt 1:18
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    18Nowe the birth of Iesvs Christ was thus, When as his mother Mary was betrothed to Ioseph, before they came together, shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.

  • Matt 1:20
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    20But whiles he thought these things, behold, the Angel of the Lorde appeared vnto him in a dreame, saying, Ioseph, the sonne of Dauid, feare not to take Mary thy wife: for that which is conceiued in her, is of the holy Ghost.

  • Ezek 34:7
    69%

    7Therefore ye shepherds, heare the woorde of the Lord.

  • Luke 1:79
    68%

    79To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, & to guide our feete into the way of peace.

  • Isa 9:2
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    2The people that walked in darkenes haue seene a great light: they that dwelled in the land of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.

  • Gen 46:32
    68%

    32And the men are shepheardes, & because they are shepheardes, they haue brought their sheepe and their cattell, and all that they haue.

  • Luke 1:26
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    26And in the sixth moneth, the Angell Gabriel was sent from God vnto a citie of Galile, named Nazareth,

  • Luke 2:1
    68%

    1And it came to passe in those daies, that there came a decree from Augustus Cesar, that all the world should be taxed.

  • Jer 33:12
    68%

    12Thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, Againe in this place, which is desolate, without man, & without beast, and in all the cities thereof there shall be dwelling for shepheards to rest their flockes.

  • Ezek 34:9
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    9Therefore, heare ye the word of the Lorde, O ye shepherds.

  • Luke 2:32
    67%

    32A light to be reueiled to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

  • Jer 25:35
    67%

    35And the flight shall faile from the shepherdes, and the escaping from the principall of the flocke.

  • Ps 8:7
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    7All sheepe and oxen: yea, and the beastes of the fielde:

  • Matt 2:22
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    22But whe he heard that Archelaus did reigne in Iudea in stead of his father Herod, he was afraide to go thither: yet after he was warned of God in a dreame, he turned aside into the parts of Galile,

  • Matt 2:19
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    19And whe Herod was dead, behold, an Angel of the Lorde appeareth in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypt,

  • Acts 12:6
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    6And when Herod woulde haue brought him out vnto the people, the same night slept Peter betweene two souldiers, bound with two chaines, and the keepers before the doore, kept the prison.