1 Samuel 16:19

So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."

1 Samuel 16:11

Then Samuel told Jesse, "Are these all the young men?" He said, "There yet remains the youngest one, and right now he's tending the sheep." Samuel told Jesse, "Send someone to get him, for we won't do anything else until he arrives here."

1 Samuel 17:15

And David would go back and forth from Saul to tend his father's sheep in Bethlehem.

Exodus 3:1-10

Meanwhile, Moses continued tending the sheep that belonged to his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the sheep to the western desert and came to Horeb, God's mountain, where

1 Samuel 17:33-34

Saul told David, "You can't go against this Philistine and fight him. You are only a young man, but he has been a warrior since his youth."

1 Kings 19:19

Elijah left there and located Shaphat's son Elisha, who was plowing, along with a total of twelve pairs of oxen. (He was plowing with the twelfth pair.) As Elijah passed by, he tossed his cloak at Elisha.

Psalm 78:70-72

Then he chose his servant David, whom he took from the sheepfold.

Psalm 113:8

and giving him a seat among nobles with the nobles of his people.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders of Tekoa, which he spoke concerning Israel during the reign of Uzziah, king of Judah and during the reign of Joash's son Jeroboam, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Amos 7:14-15

Amos replied in answer to Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet's son, for I have been shepherding and picking the fruit of sycamore trees.

Matthew 4:18-22

While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers Simon (also called Peter) and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, because they were fishermen.

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Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

Bible References

With the sheep

1 Samuel 16:11
Then Samuel told Jesse, "Are these all the young men?" He said, "There yet remains the youngest one, and right now he's tending the sheep." Samuel told Jesse, "Send someone to get him, for we won't do anything else until he arrives here."
1 Samuel 17:15
And David would go back and forth from Saul to tend his father's sheep in Bethlehem.
Exodus 3:1
Meanwhile, Moses continued tending the sheep that belonged to his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the sheep to the western desert and came to Horeb, God's mountain, where
1 Kings 19:19
Elijah left there and located Shaphat's son Elisha, who was plowing, along with a total of twelve pairs of oxen. (He was plowing with the twelfth pair.) As Elijah passed by, he tossed his cloak at Elisha.
Psalm 78:70
Then he chose his servant David, whom he took from the sheepfold.
Psalm 113:8
and giving him a seat among nobles with the nobles of his people.
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders of Tekoa, which he spoke concerning Israel during the reign of Uzziah, king of Judah and during the reign of Joash's son Jeroboam, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Amos 7:14
Amos replied in answer to Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet's son, for I have been shepherding and picking the fruit of sycamore trees.
Matthew 4:18
While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers Simon (also called Peter) and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, because they were fishermen.

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