An enclosed area of walls for keeping sheep safe at night.
About Sheepfold
The sheep pen was an area enclosed by a stone wall or hedge made of branches and thorns. It had a narrow opening through which the sheep could pass and which could be closed with brush or by the shepherd’s body. Sheep were put in the pen at night to protect them from thieves or wild animals.
Key References
Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.
“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
All Scripture References (15)
Genesis (1)
Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.
Numbers (3)
Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
Judges (1)
Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.
1 Samuel (1)
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
Psalms (2)
I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
Jeremiah (1)
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
Micah (1)
I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.
Habakkuk (1)
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
Zephaniah (1)
So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
John (2)
“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
Revelation (1)
But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.