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in (John 10:1-16) “Having had my attention directed last night to the words in (John 10:3) I asked
my man if it was usual in Greece to give names to the sheep. He informed me that it was, and that
the sheep obeyed the shepherd when he called them by their names. This morning I had an
opportunity of verifying the truth of this remark. Passing by a flock of sheep I asked the shepherd
the same question which I had put to the servant, and he gave me the same answer. I then had him
call one of his sheep. He did so, and it instantly left its pasturage and its companions and ran up to
the hands of the shepherd with signs of pleasure and with a prompt obedience which I had never
before observed in any other animal. It is also true in this country that a stranger will they not
follow, but will flee from him. The shepherd told me that many of his sheep were still wild, that
they had not yet learned their names, but that by teaching them they would all learn them.” The
common sheer, of Syria and Palestine are the broad-tailed. As the sheep is an emblem of meekness,
patience and submission, it is expressly mentioned as typifying these qualities in the person of our
blessed Lord. (Isaiah 53:7; Acts 8:32) etc. The relation that exists between Christ, “the chief
Shepherd,” and his members is beautifully compared to that which in the East is so strikingly
exhibited by the shepherds to their flocks [Shepherd]
Sheepgate, The
one of the gates of Jerusalem as rebuilt by Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 3:1,32; 12:39) It stood between
the tower of Meah and the chamber of the corner, ch. (Nehemiah 3:1,32) or gate of the guard-house,
ch. (Nehemiah 12:39) Authorized Version, “prison-gate.” The latter seems to have been at the angle
formed by the junction of the wall of the city of David with that of the city of Jerusalem proper,
having the sheep-gate on the north of it. The position of the sheep-gate may therefore have been
on or near that of the Bab el Kattanin.
Sheepmarket, The
(John 5:2) The world “market” is an interpolation of our translators. We ought probably to
supply the word “gate.”
Shehariah
(dawning of Jehovah), a Benjamite, son of Jehoram. (1 Chronicles 8:26) (B.C. 588.)
Shekel
[Money]
Shelah
(a petition).
•The youngest son of Judah. (Genesis 38:5,11,14,26; 46:10; Numbers 26:20; 1 Chronicles 2:3;
4:21) (B.C. before 1706.)
•The proper form of the name of Salah. (1 Chronicles 1:18,24)
Shelanites, The
the descendants of Shelah. 1. (Numbers 26:20)
Shelemiah
(repaid by Jehovah).
•One of the sons of Bani in the time of Ezra. (Ezra 10:30) (B.C. 458.)
•The father of Hananiah. (Nehemiah 3:30)
•A priest in the time of Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 13:13)
•The father of Jehueal, or Jucal, in the time of Zedekiah. (Jeremiah 37:3)
•The father of Irijah, the captain of the ward who arrested Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 37:13) (B.C. before
589.)
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William Smith