Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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
Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?”
“There is still the youngest,” he answered, “but right now he’s tending the sheep.” Samuel told Jesse, “Send for him. We won’t sit down to eat until he gets here.”
“There is still the youngest,”
1 Samuel 17:15
but David kept going back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s flock in Bethlehem.
Exodus 3:1
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
1 Kings 19:19
Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat as he was plowing. Twelve teams of oxen were in front of him, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah walked by him and threw his mantle over him.
Psalm 78:70 He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
and took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalm 113:8 in order to seat them with nobles—
with the nobles of His people.
with the nobles of His people.
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was one of the sheep breeders from Tekoa—what he saw regarding Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Amos 7:14
So Amos answered Amaziah, “I was not a prophet or the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman, and I took care of sycamore figs.
Matthew 4:18
As He was walking along the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, since they were fishermen.