Topic
Fold
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 32:16Easton
¶ And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
- Numbers 32:24Easton
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
- Numbers 32:36Easton
And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
- 2 Samuel 7:8Easton
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
- Psalms 68:13Easton
Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
- Isaiah 13:20Easton
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
- Isaiah 17:2Easton
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
- Ezekiel 25:5Easton
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Zephaniah 2:6Easton
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
- John 10:1Easton
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 10 references
An enclosure for flocks to rest together (Isa. 13:20). Sheep-folds are mentioned Num. 32:16, 24, 36; 2 Sam. 7:8; Zeph. 2:6; John 10:1, etc. It was prophesied of the cities of Ammon (Ezek. 25:5), Aroer (Isa. 17:2), and Judaea, that they would be folds or couching-places for flocks. “Among the pots,” of the Authorized Version (Ps. 68:13), is rightly in the Revised Version, “among the sheepfolds.”
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.