1 Samuel 16:19
So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the flock.”
1 Samuel 16:11
Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” Jesse replied, “There is still one left, the youngest; he is tending the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send word and bring him; because we will not sit down [to eat the sacrificial meal] until he comes here.”
1 Samuel 17:15
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s flock at Bethlehem.
Exodus 3:1-10
Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro (Reuel) his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.
1 Samuel 17:33-34
Then Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight him. For you are [only] a young man and he has been a warrior since his youth.”
1 Kings 19:19
So Elijah departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and threw his mantle (coat) on him.
Psalm 78:70-72
He also chose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalm 113:8
That He may seat them with princes,
With the princes of His people.
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of
Amos 7:14-15
Then Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet [by profession], nor am I a prophet’s son; I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.
Matthew 4:18-22
As Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He noticed two brothers, Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
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With the sheep
He also chose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;
That He may seat them with princes,
With the princes of His people.