What are some Bible verses that are about taking care of animals?

Answer 1

When God created Adam, He placed Him in His Garden (Eden) to be the manager - to tend and keep it. He brought all the birds and animals He had made before Adam so he should name each of them. This shows Adam as the manager of all of God's creation.

Genesis 2:19New King James Version (NKJV)

19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

After the Flood, God made some of the animals food for mankind. He also put a weariness in all creatures of mankind. Yet, He never removed our responsibility to take care of His creation - though now with our knowledge of good and evil and not direct guidance from God. So some do a good job while others do a horrific job. This is the nature of mankind - the god of this world's nature.

Of course the person begotten of God today, having His Holy Spirit within them, is guided by Him to do all good works and will be a good manager of all in the Creation as this is God Will.

A few specifics:Genesis 29:7 - Then he said, "Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."

Exodus 2:16 - Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

Deuteronomy 25:4 - You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.

Isaiah 17:15 - But David occasionally went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

Isaiah 17:34, 35 - But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.

Matthew 18:12 - What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?

Luke 2:8 - Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.

Luke 13:15b - Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?

Luke 14:5 - Then He answered them, saying, "Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?"

[Quotes from NKJV]