Luke 2:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flock by night.

Luke 2:8 —

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Cross-References

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Genesis 31:39-40
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. …
1 Samuel 17:34-35
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: …
Psalms 78:70-71
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: …
John 10:8-12
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. …
Exodus 3:1-2
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-20)

The meanest circumstances of Christ’s humiliation were all along attended with some discoveries of his glory, to balance them, and take off the offence of them; for even when he humbled himself God did in some measure exalt him and give him earnests of his future exaltation. When we saw him wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, we were tempted to say, “Surely this cannot be the Son of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. abiding in the fields--staying there, probably in huts or tents. watch ... by night--or, night watches, taking their turn of watching. From about passover time in April until autumn, the flocks pastured constantly in the open fields, the shepherds lodging there all that time. (From this it seems plain that the period of the year usually assigned to our Lord’s birth is too late). Were these shep…