1 Samuel 20:6
If your father actually notices that I'm not there, then you are to say, "David urgently requested that I allow him to run to his hometown of Bethlehem because the yearly sacrifice for the entire family was taking place there.'
1 Samuel 9:12
They answered them: "Yes, he's right there ahead of you. Hurry, for he came to town just today because there is a sacrifice for the people on the high place today.
1 Samuel 17:58
Saul told him, "Whose son are you, young man?" David said, "The son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem."
Deuteronomy 12:5
Instead, you must seek to enter only the place that the LORD your God will choose among your tribes. There he will establish his name and live.
1 Samuel 16:2-5
Samuel said, "How can I go? Saul will hear about this and kill me!"
John 7:42
But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"