And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
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Gill's Exposition
And there were in the same country shepherds,.... For Bethlehem was a place of pasture: near to Ephrata, the same with Bethlehem, were the fields of the wood, Psa 132:6 and the tower of Edar or the…
Barnes' Notes
The same country - Round about Bethlehem. Shepherds - Men who tended flocks of sheep. Abiding in the field - Remaining out of doors, under the open sky, with their flocks. This was commonly done. The…
Adam Clarke
There were - shepherds abiding in the field - There is no intimation here that these shepherds were exposed to the open air. They dwelt in the fields where they had their sheep penned up; but they…
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…
The Angels to the Shepherds
8. in the same country Tradition says that they were natives of the little village Beth-zur (Jos 15:58; Neh 3:16). They were feeding their flocks in the same fields from…
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