Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

I will give you shepherds who are loyal to Me, and they will shepherd you with knowledge and skill.

New American Standard Bible

“Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.

King James Version

And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

International Standard Version

I'll give you shepherds after my own heart, and they'll shepherd you with knowledge and good sense."

American Standard Version

and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Amplified

“Then [in the final time] I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and [true] understanding.

Bible in Basic English

And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

Darby Translation

And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Julia Smith Translation

And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.

King James 2000

And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart and they will feed you knowledge and insight.

Modern King James verseion

And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and I will give you herdsmen after mine own mind, which shall feed you with learning and wisdom.

NET Bible

I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.

New Heart English Bible

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

The Emphasized Bible

and will give you shepherds according to mine own heart, - who will feed you with knowledge and discretion.

Webster

And I will give you pastors according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

World English Bible

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Youngs Literal Translation

And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will give
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

you with knowledge
דּעה 
De`ah 
Usage: 6

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

A Call For Repentance

14 “Return, you faithless children”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“for I am your master, and I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. 15 I will give you shepherds who are loyal to Me, and they will shepherd you with knowledge and skill. 16 When you multiply and increase in the land, in those days”—the Lord’s declaration—“no one will say any longer, ‘The ark of the Lord’s covenant.’ It will never come to mind, and no one will remember or miss it. It will never again be made.


Cross References

Acts 20:28

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock that the Holy Spirit has appointed you to as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

Jeremiah 23:4

I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any be missing.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

Ezekiel 34:23

I will appoint over them a single shepherd, My servant David, and he will shepherd them. He will tend them himself and will be their shepherd.

1 Corinthians 3:1-2

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

Ephesians 4:11-12

And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

John 10:1-5

“I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

John 21:15-17

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Feed My lambs,” He told him.

1 Samuel 13:14

but now your reign will not endure. The Lord has found a man loyal to Him, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not done what the Lord commanded.”

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many,
but fools die for lack of sense.

Isaiah 30:20-21

The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression, but your Teacher will not hide Himself any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher,

Ezekiel 37:24

My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances, and keep My statutes and obey them.

Micah 5:4-5

He will stand and shepherd them
in the strength of Yahweh,
in the majestic name of Yahweh His God.
They will live securely,
for then His greatness will extend
to the ends of the earth.

Luke 12:42

The Lord said: “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food at the proper time?

1 Corinthians 2:6

However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

1 Corinthians 2:12-13

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.

Hebrews 5:12-14

Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food.

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

1 Peter 5:1-4

Therefore, as a fellow elder and witness to the sufferings of the Messiah and also a participant in the glory about to be revealed, I exhort the elders among you:

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