Shepherd Among the Sheep

When God spoke of His relationship with His people or of the appointed leaders’ relationship with God’s people in the Old Testament He frequently spoke with pastoral language, using words such as shepherd, sheep, pasture, and fold. He probably used this kind of language for two reasons:
God’s people in the Old Testament were predominantly nomadic shepherds with a long and rich pastoral history or they lived in pastoral cultures.
A shepherd’s care of the known needs of sheep was so characteris...